More older adults have been hospitalized for Covid-19 over the previous a number of weeks, in accordance with inner knowledge reviewed by medical health insurance big Humana.
Humana, which largely gives medical health insurance to these 65 and older and who’re subsequently extra susceptible to the worst results of Covid, anticipated extra Covid instances and hospitalizations this 12 months. Nevertheless it didn’t anticipate the uptick to return in the course of the waning summer time months.
“Now we have seen an additional slight uptick within the inpatient facet associated to Covid,” Humana CFO Susan Diamond stated Wednesday at a convention held by Wells Fargo. “We did, inside our estimates, assume that we’d see an uptick in Covid, though we had assumed that it will happen within the fourth quarter.”
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