Former president Bill Clinton is hospitalized with a fever : NPR

Former President Bill Clinton was admitted to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C., on Monday with a fever.

Angel Urena, Mr. Clinton’s chief of staff, said in a statement that the 78-year-old was hospitalized “in the afternoon for testing and observation.”

“He remains in good spirits and is deeply grateful for the excellent care he is receiving,” Urena said.

Clinton, a Democrat who served two terms as president from January 1993 to January 2001, spoke at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this summer and announced her unsuccessful bid for Democratic vice president ahead of the November election. Campaigned for Kamala Harris’ candidacy for the White House.

In the years since Mr. Clinton left the White House, he has faced several health concerns.

In 2004, he underwent quadruple bypass surgery because of persistent chest pain and shortness of breath. Clinton returned to the hospital in 2005 for surgery on a partially collapsed lung, and in 2010 had a pair of stents implanted in her coronary arteries.

Mr. Clinton embraced a primarily vegan diet and reported losing weight and improving his health.

In 2021, while the pandemic was still at its height, the former president was hospitalized in California for six days while being treated for an infection unrelated to COVID-19.

An aide to the former president said at the time that Mr. Clinton had a urinary infection that had spread to his bloodstream, but that he was recovering and did not go into potentially life-threatening septic shock. . The aide said Mr. Clinton was in the hospital’s intensive care unit at the time, but was not receiving ICU treatment.