Is it just me at is their partial evidence there for herd immunity? Those countries hit hardest in wave 1, whilst still suffering, seem to be seeing less deaths so far. The countries that were ok in wave 1 are struggling worse
I don't think so, I think it's more that it's early in the second wave and most of those at the bottom learned their lesson. Those on the opposite end of the scale, towards the top, got complacent.
Not related to your post but, the best examples on there are those in the middle, Germany, Norway, Finland, Denmark, all consistently good.
Some of those at the bottom also have a bit of an excuse, like Italy and Spain, as they were hit early and very hard, so they had the harder fight being caught more off guard.
See there's a couple at the bottom doing really bad, us and Sweden, to name two.
There's no excuse for the UK to have got hit harder, and and then go hit hard again, and our cases are going through the roof now, deaths are going to be sky high in January and take ages to recover from.
Same with Sweden, a massive **** up at the start, and then the arrogance of their leaders and Tegnell is really going to make them pay the ultimate price. Their deaths chart isn't accurate unless looking at dates two weeks ago, due to how slow they report, but two weeks ago their deaths per day were nearing their previous peak. These deaths were based on case from early December, since then cases have gone up by about 50%, and are still going up. Their deaths will likely do the same.