Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman checked into a hospital on Feb. 15 to be treated for clinical depression following his recent stroke. Social media posts falsely claim that Fetterman is “brain dead” and that he hasn’t been seen in public. Fetterman has been shown working from the hospital in a March 6 tweet shared by his chief of staff.
Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman checked into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland on Feb. 15 to be treated for clinical depression several months after having a stroke. It was reported that he would be away from his Washington, D.C. office for several weeks.
In a Feb. 16 statement, Adam Jentleson, Fetterman’s chief of staff, said that while the Democratic senator “has experienced depression off and on throughout his life, it only became severe” in the weeks before he checked into the hospital.
Last year, Fetterman suffered from a stroke in May caused by a blood clot from his heart beating at an irregular rhythm for too long.
“The good news is I’m feeling much better, and the doctors tell me I didn’t suffer any cognitive damage. I’m well on my way to a full recovery,” Fetterman said in a press release on May 15.
Fetterman had surgery on May 17 to implant a pacemaker with a defibrillator to manage his two heart conditions — atrial fibrillation and cardiomyopathy — that played a role in his stroke.
After the stroke, Fetterman has spoken about some of the side effects he has faced during his recovery,...
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