COVID-19: UK's second wave more deadly than the first

Sky News' analysis of mortality figures reveals deaths in the second wave of COVID-19 infections have overtaken the first in the UK.

The total number of people to have died in the UK with COVID-19 on their death certificate was just over 117,000 as of 22 January.

Sky's Data Editor Ed Conway looks at the latest data.

[UmbraXCVII]

Recording deaths like a weather forecast. Feel like I'm living in a black mirror episode.

[bartpickfordguitarist]

This guy has been seeing a personal trainer -

His floor coverage, squats, lunges and lifts are extraordinary

[mariamoments]

Must get that for my living room. Would be good for watching movies in.

[shaunpaulwallace]

The way he's jumping about he's seems to be enjoying it. The excitement is just too much.

[JackyRogue]

I've seen less enthusiasm and excitement in sports analysis

[playthegamelike]

the way data is being used in this is criminal.

[fritjofvalerijs]

Correction, second wave is longer and over a full winter, more time passing doesnt make it more deadly than something that only started in spring. The survival rate remains over 99.9% and the average age of death remains over 80

[sethgardner]

Second wave more deadly
Every sixty seconds in Africa, a minute passes

[hafsahraza]

All I got from this was that he likes to move his hands whilst he speaks.

[KGProductions_]

When cases go up, deaths go up and when cases go down, deaths often go down....someone give this man a medal, my mind is blown!

[deveronrobinson]

Death for any reason within 28 days of a positive inaccurate PCR test.

[SwigerQ]

Imagine making a living lying to millions of people every single day.

[truthhurts]

On the bright side, the flu, common cold, cancer and car crashes have all been cured

[owns]

*the hunger games has may the odds be ever in your favour*

[fionakenyon]

My nan’s just died and they are going to put died from covid when she didn’t die from it, she had stage 3 kidney disease and dementia and they classified it as covid, not everyone’s dying from covid, natural causes too. If someone got hit by a car 🚘 they would say died from covid.

[Hskh]

Anyone else pause or mute the video just to read comments?

[love]

"When cases go up deaths tend to go up when cases go down deaths tend to go down"?? Erm... well observed

[Robbbbb]

I'm convinced that sky haven't disabled the comments on their videos as they enjoy reading them as much as I do 😆

[Ocellars]

"We haven't yet exceeded the peak of the first wave" Yeah, so it's not more deadly then is it

[MCPAPI]

Mental to think...from that graph - deaths appeared at their lowest when we were all at the pubs and restaurants doing our bit in the "eat out to help out" scheme lol.
What has the world come to