claim: the daily mail’s chart of covid-19 death figures doesn’t use the real numbers
summary: in an article titled “what they don’t tell you about covid”, the daily mail published a chart that claimed the number of weekly deaths is currently “barely any higher” than the maximum level from the previous five years.
subject_description: weekly death figures in late 2020 are barely higher than the maximum in the previous five years, once you adjust for population growth.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
Motive_Description: claims deaths in 2020 are less high than other years
author_description: article
keywords: coronavirus, death, less, high, year