treated for sepsis, effectively a blood infection. they took pains to say this is also not related to covid, but it s also not related to his heart. he of course had a heart surgery, and i believe 2004. had a stint put in some years after that. but this is apparently not related to his heart, and this is not related to covid. again the spokesman for former president clinton, says it s a non covid related infection, he s on the men in a good spirits. and bc is not reported from cnn, tonight that this relates to a blood infections for which he is being treated for sepsis. in either case former president is said to be on the mend in a good spirits, which is a good sign. we will keep you posted as we learn more about that. breaking news just within the last few minutes. okay, one of the stories that i said we were watching tonight,
vying medical center, for a non covid related infection, according to a statement from a clinton spokesperson. president clinton is on the mend and in good spirits, joining us now is nbc s steve patterson, steve, what do we know? lawrence details obviously slim here with this being breaking, news but i can say based on what we do, no it seems to indicate, some good news. he was administered to uc irvine, on tuesday. we know he s been there a couple of days, now according to those same doctors from the statement that you just read, he is there under simply monitoring, they want to just check his vitals and make sure he s doing okay, according to that statement also, and according to his doctor team back in new york, because they re both in, touch both the teams in california, and in new york, they say he was admitted for close monitoring, he s on an iv of antibiotics, and fluids, and again remaining there for monitoring. obviously, simply too early to confirm or speculate exactly
a whole bunch of things are happening now, all at once on covid. first of all, most importantly, we still have a huge proportion of our population that is still unvaccinated. that is driving crushing numbers of very sick covid patients, that are still overwhelming hospitals, in multiple states. i mean your hearing about how nationally the numbers are starting to come down, from our most recent peak and that is a good piece of news nationwide, but look at the headlines just today. out of all these different states, wyoming, utah, minnesota, michigan, montana, alaska. all headlines today. about hospitals hitting or maintaining, or even exceeding, their peak patient numbers. even as recently as today. the biggest hospital in montana, their icu unit is now operating at 175% capacity, whatever relief we might be getting in the numbers nationwide, montana
anne soy, bbc news, juba. i have been speaking to saad 0mer who s director of the yale institute for global health. i asked him about the many promises made, but not kept, to countries still in dire need of covid vaccines. look, this is a tragedy. promissory notes did not induce antibodies and t cells to protect people. you need vaccines in country and you need investment in supply systems and you need investment in communication. this can be done. these countries that have low resources have almost all of them have successfully led large scale early all year eradication campaigns. the infrastructure can be utilised and built, et cetera, but the fact that these doses are missing from these countries is a tragedy. you call it a tragedy but one of the things anne mentioned in her report was the expiry
he lost the election, today there s also some interesting news, that one trump justice department senior official, very senior official, jeffrey rosen. he served as attorney general in the final days of trump after bill barr quit. jeffrey rosen apparently spent eight straight hours testifying yesterday, behind closed doors, to that same january six investigation that s going to send a criminal investigation for steve bannon. jeffrey rosen, eight hours of testimony yesterday. must-have had a lot to talk about. it was behind closed doors, we don t know what will happen. we expect that testimony will eventually be shown to the public. and no, i m not going to read all eight hours of it on the air, when we finally get the transcript. but you better believe i will read the good stuff, when we finally get it. like i said, we ve got all eyes on all those developing stories tonight. but there s been a whole different sort of drama, and momentum today, when it comes to covid.