After falling at a dinner event on Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is likely to stay in the hospital for several days.
In a first statement to PEOPLE, a spokesperson for McConnell said, “Leader McConnell fell during a private dinner at a hotel in the area. He is getting treatment at the hospital, where he has been taken.”
McConnell’s communications director later said that the fall caused him to get a concussion and that he would need to stay in the hospital “for a few days of observation and treatment.”
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CNN said that a source who knew what happened said that the 81-year-old Republican fell at the Waldorf Astoria hotel on Wednesday.
This week’s incident with McConnell is the latest health problem the Senate’s longest-serving Republican leader has had in the past few years.
He broke his shoulder when he fell at home in 2019, and in 2020, McConnell was seen with dark bruises and bandages on his hands.
McConnell, who has been chosen to lead the Republican conference nine times since 2006, put any worries about his health to rest at the time.
The minority leader’s hospital stay comes right after the hospital stays of two other important senators.
Dianne Feinstein got shingles and was in the hospital this week. She was released this week and is now at home getting better.
John Fetterman, on the other hand, just checked into a hospital for clinical depression. This came after he was taken to the hospital last month because he felt dizzy from not eating or drinking enough.
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