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Bill Clinton hospitalized
Bill Clinton speaking at the University of Ulster in the UK. The former US president has been hospitalized. Photo: Paul Faith / epa / dpa
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Ex-US President Bill Clinton was hospitalized on Tuesday – his spokesman reported on Twitter. However, it is not a corona disease.
Former US President Bill Clinton has been hospitalized in California. His spokesman, Angel Urena, posted a message on Twitter that Clinton’s disease was a non-Covid-19 infection.
Clinton was “on the mend, in good spirits and was incredibly grateful to the doctors, nurses and staff who treated him excellently.” The 75-year-old was admitted to the University of California Irvine Medical Center on Tuesday. Details of the disease were not given.
The Democrat Clinton was US President from 1993 to 2001. He is married to Hillary Clinton, who was the Democratic candidate for the 2016 US presidential election and was defeated by Donald Trump at the time.
Clinton had been brought to the hospital’s intensive care unit for close monitoring and was given antibiotics and fluids, the broadcaster CNN quoted from a joint statement by Clinton’s family doctor Lisa Bardach and Alpesh Amin, a doctor at Irvine Medical Center. “After two days of treatment, the number of white blood cells drops and he responds well to the antibiotics.” They added: “We hope he can go home soon.”