By Former United States President, Bill Clinton has been released from the Southern California hospital where he had been treated for an infection.
Clinton was released around 8 a.m. on Sunday from the University of California Irvine Medical Center. He had been admitted on Tuesday to the hospital located in southeast of Los Angeles with an infection unrelated to COVID-19.
Clinton spokesman Angel Ureña had said on Saturday that Clinton would remain hospitalized one more night to receive further intravenous antibiotics.
“He is in great spirits and has been spending time with family, catching up with friends, and watching college football,” said Ureña.
An aide to the former president said Clinton had a urological infection that spread to his bloodstream, but he is on the mend and never went into septic shock, a potentially life-threatening condition.
The aide, who spoke to reporters at the hospital on the condition of anonymity, said Clinton was in an intensive care section of the hospital but wasn’t receiving ICU care.
In the years since Clinton left the White House in 2001, the former president has faced health scares. In 2004, he underwent quadruple bypass surgery after experiencing prolonged chest pains and shortness of breath. He returned to the hospital for surgery for a partially collapsed lung in 2005, and in 2010 he had a pair of stents implanted in a coronary artery.
Clinton repeatedly returned to the stump, campaigning for Democratic candidates, most notably Hillary Clinton during her failed 2008 bid for the presidential nomination. And in 2016, as Hillary Clinton sought the White House as the Democratic nominee, her husband—by then a grandfather and nearing 70—returned to the campaign trail.
