Originally Posted by
UKTony
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
This is one of the cases where you need to be very careful with your understanding of percentages and what they represent. What is the proportion of the UK population living in care homes? If it's 0.5% then we're looking at significantly higher incidence in care homes than in other dwellings.
ETA: the MHA makes an assumption of about 418,000 people in care homes. That means that 0.63% of the population make up 3.3% of the cases, so incidence is just over 5 times higher than in the general population. Granted, they probably get tested more, but it's still significant.
MHA source: https://www.mha.org.uk/news/policy-influencing/facts-stats/