Bill Clinton released from hospital after treatment for urological infection
CBC
Bill Clinton was released Sunday from the Southern California hospital where he had been treated for an infection and will head home to New York to continue his recovery, a spokesperson said.
The former U.S. president left the University of California Irvine Medical Center at about 8 a.m. local time with his wife, Hillary Clinton, on his arm. Dressed in jeans and a sports coat and wearing a face mask, 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, and he and Hillary Clinton then got into a black SUV. They departed in a motorcade escorted by the California Highway Patrol and headed to the airport.
Clinton, 75, was admitted to the hospital southest of Los Angeles on Tuesday with an infection unrelated to COVID-19, officials said.
His spokesperson, Angel Urena, on Saturday said Clinton was receiving IV antibiotics while in hospital and that all health indicators were "trending in the right direction."
"President Clinton has continued to make excellent progress over the past 24 hours," Urena said.
"His 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, the hospital's executive director, said in a statement that Urena posted to Twitter on Sunday.
