Clinton "doing fine" and will be out of hospital soon
“He’s not in any serious condition," Biden said. “He is
getting out shortly, as I understand it. Whether that’s tomorrow or the next
day, I don’t know.”
Clinton, 75, was admitted to the University of California
Irvine Medical Center, southeast of Los Angeles, on Tuesday with an infection
unrelated to COVID-19, his spokesman said.
An aide to the former president said Clinton had a
urological infection that spread to his bloodstream, but he is on the mend and
never went into septic shock, a potentially life-threatening condition.
Clinton spokesman Angel Ureña said Friday that Clinton would
remain hospitalized overnight to receive further intravenous antibiotics.
“All health indicators are trending in the right direction,
including his white blood count which has decreased significantly,” Ureña said
in a statement.
“President Clinton continues to be in excellent spirits, and
is deeply grateful for the outstanding care he is receiving and the well wishes
that people have sent from across America and around the world,” the statement
said.
The aide, who spoke to reporters at the hospital on the
condition his name wasn’t used, said Clinton was in an intensive care section
of the hospital but wasn't receiving ICU care.
Clinton was reading books and watching TV coverage about his
hospitalization, the aide said. Hillary Clinton was with him in the hospital,
though not his daughter, Chelsea Clinton.
In the years since Clinton left the White House in 2001, the
former president has faced health scares. In 2004, he underwent quadruple
bypass surgery after experiencing prolonged chest pains and shortness of
breath. He returned to the hospital for surgery for a partially collapsed lung
in 2005, and in 2010 he had a pair of stents implanted in a coronary artery.
He responded by embracing a largely vegan diet that saw him
lose weight and report improved health.
Clinton repeatedly returned to the stump, campaigning for
Democratic candidates, mostly notably his wife, Hillary, during her failed 2008
bid for the presidential nomination. And in 2016, as Hillary Clinton sought the
White House as the Democratic nominee, Bill Clinton by then a grandfather and
nearing 70 returned to the campaign trail.
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