helen smith, who lost her dad i you. helen smith, who lost her dad ian last year _ you.ur assessment of where we are now? . .. , , ., now? tragically, there will be more deaths. professor— now? tragically, there will be more deaths. professor chris _ now? tragically, there will be more deaths. professor chris whitty i now? tragically, there will be more deaths. professor chris whitty said | deaths. professor chris whitty said yesterday that there would be a lot more deaths in the weeks ahead before the effect of the vaccines really began to be felt. and his take was that the numbers, if you look at the stats, they may be plateauing now, in other words not rising quite as fast each day, but they are going to take a while to come down. and that is a pretty sobering assessment based on where we are now, more than 100,000, one of the highest death tolls in the world from covid relative to the size of the population. and there will be understudied about what has happened over the last year, what should have been done, what wasn't done, should lockdown about the down whilst no