Washington — Former President Bill Clinton said Wednesday he tested positive for COVID-19 but his symptoms were mild and he encouraged others to get vaccinated. It has been the subject of several operations since 2004.
“I’m fine overall and I’m taking care of myself at home. I am grateful to be vaccinated and reinforced, which has kept my case mild, and I urge you to do the same, especially as the winter months approach. “Clinton wrote on Twitter.
In October 2021, Clinton spent nights in a California hospital for a blood infection, before breaking out of the arm of his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
In 2004, at age 58, he underwent quad bypass surgery after doctors discovered symptoms of extensive central disease.
Six years later, he had stents implanted in his coronary artery.
This prompted him to adopt vegetarian nutrition and speak publicly about how his food intake has helped him become healthier.
“Maybe if I hadn’t eaten so many burgers and steaks, which I love, if I had had a little less tension in my life. . . it would have been different,” Clinton told ABC News in 2004. After your surgery the success center.
Clinton led the United States for two presidential terms, from 1993 to 2001.
In the two decades since leaving the White House, he has been concerned with humanitarian and diplomatic causes.
He has traveled the world, not only to obtain lucrative fees for talks and attend congresses, but also to enter crisis spaces or raise budgets for the fight against AIDS.
Clinton, who once called himself the “child of return” in the Democratic Party’s number one war in 1992, subsidized his wife’s failed presidential crusade against Donald Trump in 2016.
Gradually, its speed has slowed and it has traveled less in years.
The Clintons are now in Chappaqua, New York.