The claim: Heroin overdoses killed more people in the U.S. on March 19 than the coronavirus A Facebook user wrote a post in March that said heroin-related overdoses had killed more people in the U.S. than the new coronavirus on one day that month. The post, which has been shared more than 75,000 times, appeared as many citizens and politicians critique the government's handling of the pandemic by comparing it to other public health threats like the flu or - in this case |