Bill Clinton to spend 1 more night in California hospital

ORANGE, Calif. – Bill Clinton volition walk 1 much nighttime astatine a Southern California infirmary wherever helium is recovering from an infection, a spokesperson said Saturday.

“President Clinton has continued to marque fantabulous advancement implicit the past 24 hours,” spokesperson Angel Ureña said successful a statement.

Clinton volition stay overnight astatine University of California Irvine Medical Center “to person IV antibiotics earlier an expected discharge tomorrow,” the connection said.

Hillary Clinton has been with her hubby astatine the infirmary southeast of Los Angeles. She returned Saturday with her girl Chelsea Clinton astir 8 a.m. Saturday successful an SUV accompanied by concealed work agents.

President Joe Biden said Friday nighttime that helium had spoken to Bill Clinton and the erstwhile president “sends his best.”

“He’s doing fine; helium truly is,” Biden said during remarks astatine the University of Connecticut.

Clinton, 75, was admitted connected Tuesday with an corruption unrelated to COVID-19, Ureña said.

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“He is successful large spirits and has been spending clip with family, catching up with friends, and watching assemblage football,” said Ureña's Saturday statement.

An adjutant to the erstwhile president said Clinton had a urological corruption that dispersed to his bloodstream, but helium is connected the mend and ne'er went into septic shock, a perchance life-threatening condition.

The aide, who spoke to reporters astatine the infirmary connected the information his sanction wasn’t used, said Clinton was successful an intensive attraction conception of the infirmary but wasn't receiving ICU care.

In the years since Clinton near the White House successful 2001, the erstwhile president has faced wellness scares. In 2004, helium underwent quadruple bypass country aft experiencing prolonged thorax pains and shortness of breath. He returned to the infirmary for country for a partially collapsed lung successful 2005, and successful 2010 helium had a brace of stents implanted successful a coronary artery.

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He responded by embracing a mostly vegan fare that saw him suffer value and study improved health.

Clinton repeatedly returned to the stump, campaigning for Democratic candidates, astir notably Hillary Clinton during her failed 2008 bid for the statesmanlike nomination. And successful 2016, arsenic Hillary Clinton sought the White House arsenic the Democratic nominee, her hubby — by past a gramps and nearing 70 — returned to the run trail.

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Kesten reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Christopher Weber successful Los Angeles; Stefanie Dazio successful Orange, California; Zeke Miller successful Hartford, Connecticut; and Alexandra Jaffe successful Washington contributed to this report.

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