McConnell says he was "briefly unconscious," had pneumonia in health update

Sen. Mitch McConnell released a connection connected his wellness connected Sunday on with a photograph of himself and his wife, Elaine Chao, aft questions swirled astir his condition, saying helium was "briefly unconscious" and helium had been dealing with a "mild lawsuit of pneumonia."

"My doctors person confirmed that I didn't interruption immoderate bones oregon endure a concussion. I didn't person a bosom onslaught oregon a stroke. I don't person immoderate tumors oregon hemorrhages," McConnell said. "But I was concisely unconscious and was taken to the hospital. While receiving fantabulous attraction implicit the past respective weeks, I've besides had to woody with a mild lawsuit of pneumonia."

The 84-year-old Kentucky Republican has been hospitalized since June 14, his bureau said. On the aforesaid day, exigency aesculapian unit responded to an unconscious idiosyncratic astatine McConnell's home, according to a nationalist EMS dispatch call reviewed by CBS News past week.

McConnell said Sunday his doctors are trying to fig retired what caused the incident, adding he's doing everything they inquire to velocity up his recovery.

"In fact, with signs of continued progress, I've been capable to determination from infirmary attraction to a rehabilitation halfway wherever I'll support regaining my strength," helium said.

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