infection. as they investigated further, they found that this was something known as uro sepsis. that means a urinary tract infection that then spread to his blood stream. a couple important things. the former president has a history of heart disease. he had a heart operation in 2004. he had stents placed in 2010. but talking to the chief of medicine out there and his primary care doctor, they said this is not related to his heart. they were definitive about that. also everyone tested for covid nowadays, especially if you re coming in for some sort of infection, and they say this is not covid. the president has received his vaccine and has received his booster. they say this was definitively an isolated blood infection related to his antibiotics in an iv form. they say he responded well to those. he started feeling better, his white blood cell count started to trend downwards and they found his fever started to go down as well.
sometimes you hear about getting that in hospitals are but sanjay s explaining it could be from an infection somewhere necessarily the body, made it into the bloodstream. the hospital says he s doing well. and also, sanjay, tell the audience in case they re joining us now, people are going to worry this is his heart. what have you been told? i did speak to his doctors, including the chief of medicine at university of california irvine, and his primary care physician. those are the first questions, was this related to his heart? because he had a heart operation back in 2004, bypass operation. he had a stent placed in 2010. they said this is not related to his heart. they also say this is not covid. he was tested for covid. and he, in fact, has been vaccinated and also received his booster shot. they say that this seems to be sepsis specifically unrelated to those two things. and responding well to anti antibiotics. they call it an infection, but it s an infection in the blood, which i
what we are learning is that the former president was out in california for a foundation event and wasn t feeling well this past tuesday. feeling a little run down, a little fatigued. but concerned enough that they took him to the hospital, university of california irvine, where he was admitted and subsequently diagnosed with a blood infection. a couple important points. the former president has a history of heart disease. had heart operation back in 2004, had stints placed in 2010. dr. shaneen, chief of medicine, said his heart is not related to his current situation in the hospital. he was also tested for covid. it s not covid. former president has been vaccinated and has received a booster shot as well. they said this was clearly a blood infection and specifically something that emanated from his urinary tract. so this is known as uro sepsis. it starts in the urinary tract, subsequently spreads to the
there for the same event that the former president was going to be attending. she is there with him as well. i don t know if she s in the hospital, but she s also in southern california. and you said, people joining us right now, former president clinton was admitted into the hospital on tuesday. they say it s a blood infection called sepsis. sometimes you hear about getting that in hospitals are but sanjay s explaining it could be from an infection somewhere in the body, made it into the blood stream. the hospital says he s doing well. and also, sanjay, tell the audience in case they re joining us now, people are going to worry this is his heart. what have you been told? i did speak to his doctors, including the chief of medicine at university of california irvine, and his primary care physician. those are the first questions, was this related to his heart? because he had a heart operation back in 2004, bypass operation. he had a stent placed in 2010. they said this is not related
covid-related. also seemingly not related to his heart. he s had heart surgery, as you know, in the past, including a heart operation in 2004 and a stent in 2010. what they think is going on with the former president now is a blood infection. sometimes known as sepsis. this is now being treated with iv antibiotics. what they are saying is he is responding well to antibiotics, he s been increasingly mobile, able to get up and around. he was joking with hospital staff, seems to be in good spirits. they say they ll continue those antibiotics at least another day, remain in the hospital at least another day, and at that point reassess. but it is possible, again, talking to his doctors just now, that he could be released from the hospital tomorrow. so there s still some details coming in, but that s sort of the gist of it. noncovid-related, seemingly nonheart-related. a blood infection, often known as sepsis, but responding to antibiotics. sepsis you hear about people