{"id":2741,"date":"2026-07-03T04:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T04:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2741"},"modified":"2026-07-03T04:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T04:19:09","slug":"doctor-issues-grim-warning-about-mitch-mcconnells-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2741","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Issues Grim Warning About Mitch McConnell\u2019s Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>A top medical expert has sounded the alarm on just how serious Senator Mitch McConnell\u2019s latest health episode may be.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2739\">Trump\u2019s Mall Cops Swoop on NSFW Protesters in Bonkers Video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 84-year-old senator was found unconscious at his Washington, D.C. home last month, and first responders were told of \u201cCPR in progress\u201d due to \u201ccardiac arrest.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>After avoiding questions from reporters for weeks, McConnell\u2019s aides finally revealed on Thursday that the senator has been in hospital since June 14.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cSenator McConnell appreciates the outpouring of support he\u2019s receiving while he continues his recovery in the hospital,\u201d the emailed statement from his office reads. \u201cThe Senator continues to improve, and is working closely with his staff on Kentucky and Senate matters while the Senate is out of session.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Discussing the revelation on Thursday night\u2019s edition of <i>Erin Burnett Outfront <\/i>on CNN, as well as McConnell\u2019s health more broadly, emergency physician at Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital and assistant professor at Harvard, Dr. Jeremy Faust, said that the situation was potentially \u201creally concerning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked by host Erica Hill what the leaked June 14 EMS phone call says about just how serious the episode was, Faust said, \u201cWhen we hear that, we often get a call like that saying we have a patient coming to the hospital receiving CPR. And what that means is that their heart has stopped, and if CPR does not work, we will have to pronounce them dead.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it does work and we can restart their heart and their heart is beating spontaneously, that begins a long road to recovery, even for the healthiest of patients,\u201d he continued. \u201cSo when you have a person who is elderly and who has other underlying medical conditions, it\u2018s really concerning.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This emergency dispatch recording was obtained from Washington, D.C. Fire and EMS dispatch and captures the call on June 14, 2026 at 8:36 a.m. requesting an Advanced Life Support (ALS) response after Senator Mitch McConnel was reported unconscious. According to the dispatch,\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/ABv97WXJhz<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Desir\u00e9e Townsend (@Cheering4Change) June 30, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hill then asked Faust whether it would be uncommon for someone with McConnell\u2019s health history to remain hospitalized 18 days later. The doctor replied that while he was not familiar with McConnell\u2019s case specifically, he noted that only about a quarter of people who experience cardiac arrest survive to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then of those people, a tiny fraction survive that hospitalization with cognitive and neurologic intact status, meaning that they\u2018re able to even take care of their bodily needs,\u201d he continued. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2737\">MAGA Fanatics Go After Attorney Who Humiliated Trump<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo 2 percent or 3 percent, maybe, who even make it to survival out of the hospital, are functionally able to do the things that you and I would consider bodily&#8230; taking care of your body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McConnell has experienced several health scares during his seven terms in the Senate, having first been elected in 1985. <\/p>\n<p>In February, he spent eight days in hospital after checking himself in \u201cin an abundance of caution\u201d after experiencing \u201cflu-like symptoms.\u201d In October, he fell over at the Capitol after being questioned by activists, and had to be helped to his feet by an aide and a member of the Capitol Hill police.<\/p>\n<p>He was also photographed being escorted out of the Capitol in a wheelchair after falling twice in quick succession in February 2025, with his spokesperson Dave Popp stressing that he was fine and that \u201cthe lingering effects of polio in his left leg will not disrupt his regular schedule of work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The senator was treated for multiple injuries, including a sprained wrist and a small cut on his face, after falling during a Senate lunch in December 2024. In 2023, he was hospitalized after suffering from a \u201cminor rib fracture\u201d and concussion after a fall.<\/p>\n<p>Faust also discussed an incident from July 2023 in which McConnell froze during a press conference before being whisked away by his colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2018s important to acknowledge that the senator and his staff has never really acknowledged what happened there, whether they\u2018ve denied an underlying neurologic condition,\u201d Faust told Hill. \u201cBut something like that, where you lose consciousness, essentially\u2014he maintained posture, certainly the lights were on, but it\u2018s unclear if anyone was home for those 15 or 20 seconds where he was just standing there\u2013that can happen at any time, and that can lead to all kinds of problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can fall and break your ribs and have pneumonia, or in your sleep, you\u2018re just not protecting your airway as well, and you can develop sepsis and die. So why, if that call was Senator McConnell, why did he have cardiac arrest? Was it because an underlying condition that was already a problem then tipped him over?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The doctor continued, \u201cThe thing with CPR is that it really works nicely. If it\u2018s just your heart, that is the problem. We can do so many things, but a lot of other things, underlying medical conditions, make things complicated, and pretty much CPR might work in terms of restarting the heart. But in terms of regaining that functional status, that\u2018s usually a much bigger ask. And it happens far less frequently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2735\">Dancers Dodge Death as Trump\u2019s State Fair Stage Falls Apart<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Daily Beast has contacted Sen. McConnell\u2019s office for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top medical expert has sounded the alarm on just how serious Senator Mitch McConnell\u2019s latest health episode may be. Read more Trump\u2019s Mall Cops Swoop on NSFW Protesters in Bonkers Video The 84-year-old senator was found unconscious at his Washington, D.C. home last month, and first responders were told of \u201cCPR in progress\u201d due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Doctor Issues Grim Warning About Mitch McConnell\u2019s Recovery - Nationwide Inter State Movers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2741\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Doctor Issues Grim Warning About Mitch McConnell\u2019s Recovery - Nationwide Inter State Movers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A top medical expert has sounded the alarm on just how serious Senator Mitch McConnell\u2019s latest health episode may be. 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