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Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021

Does a global deaths meme accurately reflect the severity and scope of COVID-19?

Dana Ford, Lead Stories

no

A social media post picked a three-month period at the very start of the pandemic, before deaths from COVID-19 started to skyrocket, to compare with deaths from other causes.

This allowed the list to put coronavirus deaths at the low end and abortions at the high end for January through March 2020.

The meme cites the Worldometer statistics website, which shows that deaths from the disease started to skyrocket around April 2020 and have been climbing consistently ever since. 

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