Washington — On the identical morning Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell was hospitalized final month, emergency medical personnel went to his house to answer an unconscious one who appeared to expertise “cardiac arrest,” in accordance with a public EMS dispatch name reviewed by CBS Information.
Through the recording, a dispatcher known as in a “cardiac arrest” and a medic stated there was “CPR in progress” at McConnell’s handle. The dispatcher additionally stated someone was “unconscious.” The decision got here in earlier than 9 a.m. on June 14. The senator’s identify isn’t talked about throughout the name, and CBS Information has not confirmed the identification of the unconscious particular person.
Audio of the decision was first shared by journalist Desiree Townsend.
On the identical day because the dispatch name, a spokesperson for McConnell stated in a press release that the Kentucky Republican was hospitalized and was “receiving glorious care.” No particulars have been offered about why he was admitted or the place.
In a press release the subsequent day, the spokesperson stated McConnell — who was beforehand the Senate’s prime Republican — “is absolutely engaged with employees on Senate enterprise and Kentucky issues.”
That day, Senate Majority Chief John Thune stated he spoke with McConnell and he “sounded good.”
“He is clearly dialed into what is going on on,” the South Dakota Republican stated on June 15. “He is following the stuff we’re doing this week up right here.”
McConnell final voted on June 11.
CBS Information has reached out to McConnell’s workplace for remark.
McConnell, a childhood polio survivor, has confronted a number of well being scares in recent times. In a Might 19 committee listening to, the 84-year-old was seen with a bandage round his hand. In February, McConnell spent greater than per week within the hospital after he checked himself in for “flu-like signs.”
In 2023, he was hospitalized with a concussion after a fall and later appeared to freeze in two separate cases. He suffered minor accidents in 2024 after one other fall.
