Jesse Jackson, 79, and his wife Jacqueline Jackson, 77, are hospitalized in Chicago after testing positive for Covid-19.
Reverend Jesse Jackson, pastor and iconic civil rights activist in the United States, was hospitalized after testing positive for Covid-19, although vaccinated, his representatives announced on Saturday.
Jesse Jackson, 79, and his wife Jacqueline Jackson, 77, are being treated at Northwestern Hospital in Chicago, the “Rainbow PUSH Coalition” organization chaired by the Reverend said in a statement posted on Facebook.
“Doctors are currently monitoring their condition. Anyone who has been in contact with either in the past five or six days should follow” guidelines from the government’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, adds the organization.
A new outbreak of contaminations caused by the Delta variant
Companion of Martin Luther King in the 1960s, a talented orator, this Baptist pastor born October 8, 1941 in an America still marked by segregation, ran for the Democratic primary for the American presidential election twice in the 1980s, remaining a long time the most famous black personality to have tried the race for the White House … until Barack Obama.
He was vaccinated against the coronavirus last January, and then urged reluctant African Americans to be vaccinated. The announcement of his hospitalization comes as the United States, the country most bereaved by Covid-19 with more than 620,000 dead, is experiencing a new outbreak of contamination caused by the Delta variant.
Jesse Jackson had announced in 2017 to suffer from Parkinson’s disease. Last July, he received from the hands of French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris the insignia of Commander of the Legion of Honor.
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