Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s husband, John Bessler, has been released from the hospital after contracting the coronavirus.
“Thanks to all who send kind words and prayers for my husband John,” the former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate said in a statement Thursday. “He has coronavirus and has been in the hospital for pneumonia and low oxygen. He took a good turn, was just released and is now recovering at home.”
Her law professor husband self-quarantined when he began having flu-like symptoms weeks ago.
“He kept having a temperature and a bad, bad cough and when he started coughing up blood he got a test and a chest X-ray and they checked him into a hospital in Virginia because of a variety of things including very low oxygen levels which haven’t really improved. He now has pneumonia and is on oxygen but not a ventilator,” Klobuchar wrote in a Medium post on Monday.
The Minnesota senator, who was in her home state at the time her husband became ill, said she had not been able to visit him for weeks.
“I love my husband so very much and not being able to be there at the hospital by his side is one of the hardest things about this disease,” she said. “While I cannot see him and he is of course cut off from all visitors, our daughter Abigail and I are constantly calling and texting and emailing.”
