“Significantly more people died of Covid-19 in two months than died of overdoses all of last year or the year before.”
Monica Wallace
New York state Assembly member. a newspaper interview. Claim dated 8 Jun 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisTrue
What PolitiFact found
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.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Monica Wallace (New York state Assembly member) made this claim around 8 June 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 18 June 2020, 10 days later. Its rating was “True”.
Where the claim appeared
- buffalonews.comhttps://buffalonews.com/2020/06/08/federal-prosecutor-playing-politics-with-shutdown-stat…
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