Bill Clinton, 75, was released from a California hospital on Sunday after being treated for an infection for five nights.
Clinton offered a thumbs up as he walked slowly out of the hospital and shook hands with workers in front of television cameras, arm in arm with his wife, former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
“President Clinton was discharged from UC Irvine Medical Center today,” said a statement by doctor Alpesh Amin released via a Clinton spokesman.
“His fever and white blood cell count are normalized and he will return home to New York to finish his course of antibiotics,” added Amin, who oversaw the medical team treating the former president.
The former US president, who served from 1993 to 2001, was hospitalized to a hospital south of Los Angeles on Tuesday evening with a non-Covid-related blood infection.
Clinton, according to the New York Times, got a urinary tract infection that progressed to sepsis, according to an aide.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, sepsis is a severe body reaction to infection that affects 1.7 million people in the United States each year.
Every year, it kills 270,000 people who are sick.
