The Rev. Jesse Jackson and his spouse, Jacqueline, have been hospitalized after testing optimistic for Covid-19, Mr. Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition stated on Saturday in an announcement.
Each have been being handled at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, The Related Press reported.
“Medical doctors are at present monitoring the situation of each,” the assertion learn. No additional particulars have been obtainable about their situation. Mr. Jackson is 79, and Jacqueline Jackson is 77.
Mr. Jackson received vaccinated in January. He has been campaigning to persuade extra Black Individuals to get inoculated.
“Vaccination is crucial to avoid wasting lives, significantly for African Individuals, disproportionately the best victims of the virus,” he stated on the time.
He revealed in 2017 that he had been identified with Parkinson’s illness.
Mr. Jackson has been a civil rights advocate for greater than 50 years and sought the Democratic presidential nominations in 1984 and 1988. He was a detailed affiliate of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
