Rev. Jesse Jackson, proven receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in January, and his spouse, Jacqueline, have been hospitalized after testing constructive for COVID-19.
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Rev. Jesse Jackson, proven receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in January, and his spouse, Jacqueline, have been hospitalized after testing constructive for COVID-19.
Charles Rex Arbogast/AP
CHICAGO — The Rev. Jesse Jackson, 79, and his spouse, Jacqueline, 77, have been hospitalized after testing constructive for COVID-19, in accordance with a press release Saturday.
Jesse Jackson, a famed civil rights chief, is vaccinated in opposition to the virus and obtained his first dose in January throughout a publicized occasion as he urged others to obtain the inoculation as quickly as potential. The 2 are being handled at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
“Medical doctors are presently monitoring the situation of each,” in accordance with the assertion approved by their son, Jonathan Jackson.
“There aren’t any additional updates at the moment,” the assertion stated. “We are going to present updates as they grow to be out there.”
A protégé of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jesse Jackson was key in guiding the fashionable civil rights motion on quite a few points, together with voting rights.
Regardless of having been recognized for Parkinson’s illness, Jackson has remained lively, and has advocated for COVID-19 vaccines for Black individuals, who lag behind white individuals in the US’ vaccination drive.
