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The Telegraph, on its front page article today (you can sort-of-read it on the BBC front page summary
here) is saying that PHE's data is now showing that most outbreaks are happening in care homes
This is not true unless you disbelieve the UK government published data
https://assets.publishing.service.go...port_w2_V2.pdf
Pg 27 COVID-19 cases by type of residence, latest week 01 and prior week 53 in backets
91.2% (93.2%) in residential dwellings
3.3% (2.2%) in care/nursing homes
So not only is there only a modest increase in nursing and care home based reported cases but the vast majority of reported cases remain in residential settings at outset.
Pg 22 Number of acute respiratory infection (ARI) incidents by institution England does show the majority of ARI
outbreak reports are from care homes but the ratio has not significantly changed since Week 27 whilst the incident rate has risen nearly 10 fold which is likely down to the move to more (weekly) testing of staff as the report relates to the institution not the status of the reported case(s).