By SOPHIA TAREEN
CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson mentioned Tuesday that he’s feeling “pretty nicely” and receiving nice care at a Chicago hospital after a breakthrough COVID-19 an infection.
He spoke briefly by cellphone with The Related Press from Northwestern Memorial Hospital, the place he and his spouse, Jacqueline, have been hospitalized in separate rooms for the reason that weekend after they for the virus.
“I’m doing pretty nicely,” the civil rights chief mentioned.
The 79-year-old, , has been totally vaccinated. He acquired his at a public occasion in January the place he inspired others to do the identical. However his 77-year-old spouse, Jacqueline, additionally a civil rights activist, has not been vaccinated. She has been receiving some oxygen however is respiratory on her personal and not using a respirator, in keeping with relations.
Jesse Jackson mentioned his spouse didn’t get vaccinated as a result of she has a “preexisting situation” they have been apprehensive about. He didn’t elaborate.
Usually, public well being specialists strongly encourage folks with current well being situations, corresponding to most cancers or diabetes, to get vaccinated as they’re at elevated danger for extreme sickness.
Relations have mentioned the Jacksons have been admitted to the hospital partly and that each have been responding positively to remedy. They’ve been married practically 60 years.
“The well being standing of each my mother and father is unchanged,” considered one of their sons, Jonathan Jackson, mentioned in a Tuesday assertion. “They proceed to relaxation comfortably and to obtain remedy.”
Jackson, who was hospitalized early this yr for , has remained lively and continued touring and advocating for voting rights and different causes.
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