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CHICAGO (AP/77WABC) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a famed civil rights leader and two-time presidential candidate, and his wife have been hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19, according to a statement Saturday. The Reverend’s family has now announced that he and his wife, Jacqueline, are “responding positively” to medical treatment.
Doctors at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago were “carefully monitoring” their conditions because of their ages, son Jonathan Jackson said in a statement to NBC on Sunday. The statement went on to read, “both are resting comfortably and are responding positively to their treatments.”
Jesse Jackson, 79, who also has Parkinson’s disease, is vaccinated against the virus and received his first dose in January during a publicized event as he urged others to receive the inoculation as soon as possible. He and his wife, 77, are being treated at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
“Doctors are currently monitoring the condition of both,” according to the statement from Jesse Jackson’s nonprofit, the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition.
“There are no further updates at this time,” the statement said. “We will provide updates as they become available.”
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