Probably linked to them having significant ethnic Indian sub-continent populations - there's a tendency for those communities to live in multi-generation households including elderly grandparents which makes shielding and self-isolation more difficult and there's also a genetic pre-disposition to diabetes in those communities which increases the chance of serious illness from covid-19.
Most likely the type of communities they host, and also that a lot of workers will fall into the shop work/health work/care work bracket, and therefore come into closer contact with each other more regularly.
Thanks,i expect it will be a bit up and down yet,only two doses of prednisone so far,six week course
Pneumonia is a pretty common condition to be admitted to ITU with, often straight from A&E, all community acquired pneumonia will be treated as suspected Covid at the moment.
