Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 90, sustains a fall at dwelling, hospitalized, however receives clear outcomes from scans, in accordance with her workplace
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the oldest member of Congress, fell in her dwelling and went to a hospital, her workplace stated on Wednesday.
The 90-year-old California Democrat, who has confronted mounting considerations about her well being and her capability to carry out the duties of a senator, “briefly went to the hospital yesterday afternoon as a precaution after a minor fall in her dwelling,” her workplace stated in a press release.
All of her scans had been clear, and she or he returned dwelling, stated her spokesman Adam Russell, who offered no additional particulars.
The San Francisco hospital go to comes after Feinstein missed months of labor in Washington earlier this yr when she was hospitalized for the shingles virus and its uncomfortable side effects. Since her return to work in Could, she has traveled the Capitol halls in a wheelchair and has typically appeared confused and disoriented.
Feinstein has defended her capability to carry out her job, although her workplace stated in Could that she was nonetheless experiencing imaginative and prescient and stability impairments from the shingles virus.
Feinstein, who took workplace in 1992, introduced earlier this yr that she wouldn’t search reelection in 2024. A number of Democrats have already entered the race to switch her.
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