Ex-President Clinton released from hospital
ORANGE, Calif. — Former President Bill Clinton was released Sunday from the Southern California hospital where he had been treated for an infection, and will head home to Chappaqua, New York, to continue his recovery, a spokesman said.
Clinton left the University of California Irvine Medical Center around 8 a.m. with former first lady Hillary Clinton on his arm. He made his way out of the hospital slowly and stopped to shake hands with doctors and nurses lined up on the sidewalk. He gave a thumbs-up when a reporter asked how he was feeling.
Bill Clinton’s “fever and white blood cell count are normalized, and he will return home to New York to finish his course of antibiotics,” Dr. Alpesh Amin said in a statement shared on Twitter by a Clinton spokesman.
Clinton, 75, was admitted Tuesday to the hospital southeast of Los Angeles with an infection unrelated to COVID-19.
Hillary Clinton had been with her husband at the hospital and was accompanied there Saturday by daughter Chelsea.
President Joe Biden said Friday night that he had spoken to Bill Clinton, and the former president “sends his best.”
An aide to the former president said Bill Clinton had a urological infection that spread to his bloodstream but was on the mend and never went into septic shock, a potentially life-threatening condition.
In the years since Clinton left the White House in 2001, he has faced several health scares.
In 2004, he 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.