Bill Clinton was discharged after spending five nights hospitalized for an infection

The 75-year-old former US president left the University of California Irvine Medical Center and will continue his antibiotic treatment in New York

Bill Clinton was released Sunday from the Southern California hospital where he had been treated for an infection.

The former US president was discharged from the University of California Irvine Medical Center around 8 a.m.

Clinton, 75, had been admitted to the southeastern Los Angeles hospital Tuesday for an infection unrelated to COVID-19, according to authorities.

” His fever and white blood cell count have returned to normal and he will return home to New York to finish his course of antibiotics, ” reported the medical report.

Live CNN footage showed the former president leaving the facility waving to the cameras and saying goodbye to medical personnel.

Clinton’s spokesman, Ángel Ureña, had said Saturday that Clinton would remain hospitalized one more night to receive more intravenous antibiotics . But all the health indicators were “trending in the right direction,” Ureña said.

President Joe Biden said Friday night that he had spoken with Bill Clinton and the former president sends his regards. “Okay, it really is,” Biden said in remarks at the University of Connecticut.

An aide for the former president said Clinton had a urological infection that got to her blood, but is on the mend and never went into septic shock , a potentially life-threatening problem. The collaborator, who requested anonymity to make statements to the press at the hospital, reported that Clinton was in an intensive care section but not receiving intensive care.

Since leaving the White House in early 2001, the former president has had several health incidents . In 2004, he underwent quadruple bypass surgery after suffering prolonged chest pain and shortness of breath. In 2005 he had surgery on a partially collapsed lung and in 2010 a pair of stents were implanted in a coronary artery.

He lost weight and improved his health after adopting a mainly vegan diet.

He resumed his activities and campaigned for Democratic candidates, especially Hillary Clinton who failed in 2008 to win the presidential nomination.

In 2016, when Hillary Clinton again sought to be the Democratic presidential standard-bearer, her husband, then a grandfather and about to turn 70, again actively supported her in the campaign.