More older adults have been hospitalized for Covid-19 over the previous a number of weeks, in response to inner information reviewed by medical insurance big Humana.
Humana, which principally offers medical insurance to these 65 and older and who’re subsequently extra weak to the worst results of Covid, anticipated extra Covid circumstances and hospitalizations this yr. But it surely didn’t anticipate the uptick to come back in the course of the waning summer season months.
“We now have seen an extra slight uptick within the inpatient facet associated to Covid,” Humana CFO Susan Diamond mentioned 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 might happen within the fourth quarter.”
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