focus -WSS

focus

author：fashion 2025-10-01 00:58:52 - browse：64244

More older adults have been hospitalized for Covid-19 over the past several weeks, according to data reviewed by health insurer Humana. Scott Olson/Getty Images

More older adults have been hospitalized for Covid-19 over the past several weeks, according to internal data reviewed by health insurance giant Humana.

Humana, which mostly provides health insurance to those 65 and older and who are therefore more vulnerable to the worst effects of Covid, expected more Covid cases and hospitalizations this year. But it didn’t expect the uptick to come during the waning summer months.

“We have seen a further slight uptick in the inpatient side related to Covid,” Humana CFO Susan Diamond said Wednesday at a conference held by Wells Fargo. “We did, within our estimates, assume that we would see an uptick in Covid, although we had assumed that it would occur in the fourth quarter.”

Get unlimited access to award-winning journalism and exclusive events.

Subscribe Log In

Previous article： In age of alternative facts, a scholarly course on calling out crap
Next article： Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller Rogen on Alzheimer's caregiving

leisure time

WSS

Indictment alleges Trump's ex

Snackable artificial intelligence, expert AI, and the pharma industry

Montana youths win climate lawsuit against state for promoting fossil fuels

Why Novartis is changing the name of its research labs

NIH nominee Bertagnolli will get October confirmation hearing

After Optum profits sink, UnitedHealth makes changes

Wikipedia

focus

leisure time

The high cost of giving birth even with insurance

Treatments for cramps don't cut it. Why aren't there better options?

Trump demands the U.S. pay no more for drugs than other countries … again

Maui wildfire now ranks as the fifth

In Memoriam: Notable people who died in 2023

Aspartame and sugar

BioMarin wins approval for gene therapy to treat hemophilia A

Crinetics acromegaly drug succeeds in late

Psychedelics group wrestles with new pharma identity

How to protect patients from sexual assault

leisure time

Surge in Apellis stock fueled by confidence in safety of its eye drug

Patients, digital health players weigh in on FTC's data privacy plan

Treatments for cramps don't cut it. Why aren't there better options?

Biotech execs pursue obesity drug boom: ‘It’s the early innings’

Weighted lottery helped low

Schizophrenia gene found to be linked to cells' energy dysfunction

entertainment

knowledge

entertainment

Wikipedia