Former President Bill Clinton Released From Hospital After 6 Days

By Brian Donlon
October 18, 2021

Bill Clinton arrived Sunday astatine his location successful New York to proceed recovering from an corruption that near him successful attraction for six days astatine a Southern California hospital, officials said.

The erstwhile president near the University of California Irvine Medical Center astir 8 a.m. with Hillary Clinton connected his arm. Dressed successful jeans and a sports overgarment and wearing a look mask, helium made his mode retired of the infirmary dilatory and stopped to shingle hands with doctors and nurses lined up connected the sidewalk.

He gave a thumbs-up erstwhile a newsman asked however helium was feeling, and helium and Hillary Clinton past boarded a achromatic SUV. They departed successful a motorcade escorted by the California Highway Patrol and headed to the airport.

Bill Clinton's "fever and achromatic humor compartment number are normalized, and helium volition instrumentality location to New York to decorativeness his people of antibiotics," Alpesh N. Amin said successful a connection shared connected Twitter by a Clinton spokesperson.

Clinton, 75, was admitted Tuesday to the infirmary southeast of Los Angeles with an corruption unrelated to COVID-19. He arrived Sunday evening astatine his location successful Chappaqua, New York, to proceed his recovery.

Spokesperson Angel Ureña had said Saturday that Clinton would stay hospitalized until astatine slightest Sunday to person further intravenous antibiotics. But each wellness indicators were "trending successful the close direction," Ureña said.

Hillary Clinton had been with her hubby astatine the infirmary and was accompanied determination Saturday by girl Chelsea.

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.

An adjutant to the erstwhile president said Bill Clinton had a urological corruption that dispersed to his bloodstream but was 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.

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.

Additional reporting by The Associated Press.