Dig into the data, and the narrative that the current wave is deadlier than the one that hit in the spring begins to unravel. The UK has yet to hit the daily death levels seen in the first wave On Jan 13, Dr Yvonne Doyle, the medical director at Public Health England (PHE) issued an alarming statement claiming that Britain had reported the highest number of coronavirus deaths on a single day since the pandemic began. She also alleged that there have now been more deaths in the second wave than the first. Both these statements were "technically" true. On that day, 1,564 people were added to official mortality figures , the highest number ever, while the 44,198 "second wave" coronavirus deaths passed the 40,563 recorded up to August 31. Yet dig a little deeper and the narrative that the second wave is more deadly than the first begins to unravel. I make an early caveat here that I firmly believe we are having a deadly second wave , and thousands more people are dying...