Former President Bill Clinton has been hospitalized in Washington after he developed a fever, a prime aide informed NBC News on Monday.
Clinton, 78, “has been admitted to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital for testing and commentary after creating a fever,” stated Angel Ureña, Clinton’s deputy chief of employees.
“He is in good spirits and grateful for the care he’s receiving,” Ureña stated.
A supply near Clinton, the forty second president, stated the state of affairs is “not pressing.”
“The former president will likely be positive,” the supply stated. “He developed a fever and needed to be checked out. He is awake and alert.”
Clinton has confronted numerous health scares since he left workplace in 2001.
He underwent a quadruple bypass operation at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in 2004 and returned to the identical hospital for one more coronary heart process in 2010, when two stents have been inserted right into a coronary artery.
He was additionally hospitalized for six days in California in 2021 with a urological infection that unfold to his bloodstream.
Clinton campaigned vigorously for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris this yr and just lately launched a memoir about his post-presidential life.
Clinton has spoken at each Democratic National Convention since 1976, together with this August.
“I need to say this from the underside of my coronary heart,” he said in that address. “I do not know what number of extra of those I’ll have the ability to come to.”
