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Checked by PolitiFact18 Jun 2020United States Health

Monica Wallace, New York state Assembly member

“Significantly more people died of Covid-19 in two months than died of overdoses all of last year or the year before.”

PolitiFact rated this: True

PolitiFact says: Nationally, more than 96,000 Americans died of the coronavirus in April and May 2020. That exceeds the 70,000 Americans who died of drug overdoses in the higher of the two most recent years, 2017.