# Bill Clinton hospitalized since Tuesday with non-COVID sepsis

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**Created:** [October 15, 2021, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-hospitalized-since-tuesday-with-non-covid-sepsis/952527 "2021-10-15T02:09:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-hospitalized-since-tuesday-with-non-covid-sepsis/952527/1 "2021-10-15T02:09:58Z")

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Sepsis. Yikes. That’s really scary. They’re saying that his condition is improving. Sure hope that’s true.

> **[Former President Bill Clinton hospitalized for infection but 'on the mend' |...](https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/14/politics/bill-clinton-hospitalized/index.html)**
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> Former President Bill Clinton was admitted to the University of California Irvine Medical Center's intensive care unit for a urinary tract infection that spread to his bloodstream, his doctors told CNN on Thursday.

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**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-hospitalized-since-tuesday-with-non-covid-sepsis/952527/2 "2021-10-15T02:26:55Z")

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Sounds like they caught it before it got too advanced, which is good. Doesn’t sound too serious, although that can change quickly.

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**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-hospitalized-since-tuesday-with-non-covid-sepsis/952527/3 "2021-10-15T12:11:27Z")

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His white blood count went down which seems to be a good sign. I wish him well.

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**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-hospitalized-since-tuesday-with-non-covid-sepsis/952527/4 "2021-10-15T12:17:53Z")

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CNN described it as “hospitalized for infection” but the word “sepsis” was never mentioned. Sepsis is damned serious stuff, but it sounds like he’s over the worst of it. Clinton had quadruple bypass surgery over fifteen years ago and I remember thinking how scary that must have been. He wrote a really interesting account of the experience. He’s been through a lot.

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**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-hospitalized-since-tuesday-with-non-covid-sepsis/952527/5 "2021-10-15T13:25:16Z")

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> [@wolfpup](#):
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> Sepsis is damned serious stuff . . .

And I believe it’s treated with massive doses of some industrial-strength antibiotics, which can have serious adverse effects too.

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-hospitalized-since-tuesday-with-non-covid-sepsis/952527/6 "2021-10-15T14:10:40Z")

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> [@wolfpup](#):
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> CNN described it as “hospitalized for infection” but the word “sepsis” was never mentioned.

He was hospitalized for infection, the sepsis came when the infection spread to his bloodstream.

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-hospitalized-since-tuesday-with-non-covid-sepsis/952527/7 "2021-10-15T15:05:26Z")

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NBC News Radio expects him to be released tomorrow, if not today.