President Trump and other conspiracy fantasists touted the fake claim that COVID death counts are exaggerated.
But three kinds of evidence point to more than 250,000 deaths
A persistent falsehood has been circulating on social media: the number of COVID deaths is much lower than official
statistics, and therefore the danger of the disease has been overblown. In August, President Donald Trump retweeted
a post claiming that only 6 percent of these reported deaths were actually from COVID-19.
Photo: Peter Horvath
PEOPLE ARE DYING. PEOPLE'S PARENTS ARE DYING. PEOPLE'S GRANDPARENTS ARE DYING. PEOPLE'S CHILDREN ARE DYING. PEOPLE'S LOVED ONES ARE DYING. PEOPLE'S FRIENDS ARE DYING. PEOPLE'S SISTERS ARE DYING. PEOPLE'S BROHTERS ARE DYING.