A longtime healthcare exec wants to change how we care for aging Americans

Hello,

Welcome to Insider Healthcare. I'm healthcare editor Leah Rosenbaum, and today in healthcare news:

• Jack Stoddard, former executive of Haven and Accolade, has a new company for older adults;
• Stem cell manufacturing company Cellino is raising its next round of financing;
• The CDC isn't stopping flights from the UK, despite a new COVID-19 variant.

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A former Haven exec is working with Alphabet's GV and Andreessen Horowitz to change how and where we care for older Americans

• Jack Stoddard, Haven's former chief operating officer, is launching a new startup, Patina Health.
• It's hoping to make healthcare easier for older people and their loved ones.
• Patina has raised $57 million, and it's launching early next year.

Dive in>>

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EXCLUSIVE: Rising biotech Cellino is raising $75 million to make it easier to produce stem cells with AI

• Cellino is raising between $75 million and $80 million for a Series A round, sources told Insider.
• The startup is using artificial intelligence and lasers to develop treatments using stem cells.
• It launched in February with $16 million in seed funding from Khosla Ventures and other investors.

Read the scoop>>

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The CDC has no plans to stop flights coming from the UK despite the rise of a new Delta-related variant

• About 6% of Delta cases in England are now of a variant called AY.4.2 - and the figure is rising.
• But the CDC has no plans to stop flights from the UK, its director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said.
• The CDC was "following the science very, very carefully," she told NBC's Meet The Press.

Check it out>>

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• Not everyone agrees that COVID-19 vaccine boosters are needed for the general public (The New York Times)
• The US has a record number of sexually transmitted diseases and COVID-19 is making things worse, experts say (Insider)
• When public health experts decided to become less political, they led to the downfall of the field (The Atlantic)

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-Leah