Biden: Clinton ‘fine,’ will be out of hospital soon
ORANGE, Calif. — Hillary and Chelsea Clinton arrived Saturday morning at the Southern California hospital where Bill Clinton is recovering after being treated for an infection.
The former president is doing fine and will be released soon from the University of California Irvine Medical Center, President Joe Biden said Friday night.
Biden said during remarks at the University of Connecticut that he had spoken to Clinton and the former president “sends his best.”
“He’s doing fine; he really is,” Biden said.
“He’s not in any serious condition,” Biden said. “He is getting out shortly, as I understand it. Whether that’s tomorrow or the next day, I don’t know.”
Hillary Clinton has been with her husband at the hospital southeast of Los Angeles. Chelsea Clinton was with her mother around 8 a.m. Saturday in an SUV accompanied by secret service agents.
Clinton, 75, was admitted Tuesday with an infection unrelated to COVID-19, his spokesman said.
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 on the condition his name wasn’t used, said Clinton was in an intensive care section of the hospital but wasn’t receiving ICU care. Clinton was reading books and watching TV.
In 2004, Clinton underwent quadruple bypass surgery after experiencing 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 stents implanted in a coronary artery.