What you should know
- The 75-year-old ex-president was in good spirits.
- Former President Bill Clinton had been hospitalized with the infection for at least two days, his doctors said.
- Clinton was the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 and was the first president of the baby boomer generation.
Former President Bill Clinton was hospitalized Thursday in Southern California with a non-COVID-19 infection, his spokesman confirmed to NBC News.
The 75-year-old was hospitalized at the University of California, Irvine Medical Center in Orange County.
It wasn’t immediately clear why Clinton was also hospitalized, but his spokesman said he was “in a good mood”.
His spokesman Angel Ureña tweeted that Clinton was on the mend.
Ureña later tweeted that the former president was receiving antibiotics via an IV, and after two days of treatment, Clinton’s white blood cell counts went down.
The treating doctors Dr. Alpesh Amin and Dr. Lisa Bardack spoke to Clinton’s cardiologist in New York.
Clinton was the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 and was the first president of the baby boomer generation.
He was the first Democrat since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second term.
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