Ex-President Bill Clinton recovering from infection in hospital, doctors
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[October 15, 2021]
By Dan Whitcomb and Brad Brooks
ORANGE, California (Reuters) -U.S. former
President Bill Clinton is recovering after two days of treatment for an
infection in a California hospital, his doctors said on Thursday.
The 75-year-old was admitted to the University of California Irvine
Medical Center on Tuesday evening "for a non-COVID-19 infection,"
Clinton spokesman Angel Urena said on Twitter.
"He is on the mend, in good spirits, and incredibly thankful to the
doctors, nurses and staff providing him with excellent care," Urena
wrote. The spokesman added to Reuters: "He’s up and about, joking and
charming the hospital staff."
Clinton went to the hospital after feeling fatigued and was diagnosed
with an infection of the bloodstream that doctors believe started as a
urinary tract infection, CNN reported, citing his doctors.
The former president's physicians, Alpesh Amin and Lisa Bardack, said he
was "admitted to the hospital for close monitoring and administered IV
antibiotics and fluids."
"He remains at the hospital for continuous monitoring," they said in a
statement. "After two days of treatment, his white blood cell count is
trending down and he is responding to antibiotics well."
They added: "We hope to have him go home soon."
CNN cited doctors saying Clinton was in the intensive care unit
primarily to give him privacy.
Clinton, a Democrat who was president from 1993-2001, has had past
health issues, including a 2004 quadruple bypass surgery and a 2010
procedure to open a blocked artery in his heart with two stents. CNN
reported that Clinton's current hospital stay is not related to his
heart issues.
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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton attends the Bloomberg Global
Business Forum in New York City, New York, U.S., September 25, 2019.
REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
The former Arkansas governor came to the White House
by defeating an incumbent president, Republican George H.W. Bush,
and served during a period of acute partisanship in Washington, a
harbinger of the current bitter political state.
Clinton won re-election in 1996 against longtime Republican Senator
Bob Dole.
Clinton endured bruising political battles with Republicans. He was
impeached in 1998 by the Republican-led House of Representatives
over his sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky
but remained in office when the Senate acquitted him in 1999.
He is known for a remarkable talent for connecting with people and
an exceptional understanding of policy issues.
Clinton morphed into a political husband after leaving office, when
his wife Hillary Clinton was elected U.S. senator from New York in
2000. She unsuccessfully sought the 2008 Democratic presidential
nomination and won the party's 2016 nomination before losing the
election to Donald Trump.
(Reporting by Dan Whitcomb in Orange and Brad Brooks in Lubbock,
Texas; Writing by Stephen Coates; Editing by Peter Cooney and
William Mallard)
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