{"id":4358,"date":"2009-01-20T15:19:39","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T15:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/01\/20\/medical-emergency-at-the-inaug\/"},"modified":"2009-01-20T15:19:39","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T15:19:39","slug":"medical-emergency-at-the-inaug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/20\/medical-emergency-at-the-inaug\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Emergency at the Inauguration: Kenndy and Byrd!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we speak, someone is getting medical treatment at the inaugural indoors ceremony lunch thingie. Details will follow.<\/p>\n

It is not the president or the vp or their immediate families. There are a lot of old people there, it could be almost anything. <\/del><\/p>\n

UPDATE: It was Ted Kennedy, taken away on a stretcher. Hopefully a minor setback and nothing more.<\/p>\n

Ambulances pulled up to the building, but have not pulled out yet. Perviously, Kennedy has been brought to the hospital a couple of times and has gotten past it pretty easily. He is fragile, clearly.<\/p>\n

Kennedy was in a state of convulsions and was taken out in that state. Earlier, Senator Robert Byrd was having some kind of trouble eating, not too serious, was also taken away.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Kennedy was in a wheelchair at the time of the attack. Medical people came out and converted his (obviously very fancy) wheel chair into a stretcher (a transformer wheelchair) and, the Senator still convulsing, was pulled out of the room and brought to the building’s medical facility.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: No, Nora of MSNBC had it wrong … Kennedy was not taken to the building’s medical facility. He was stuffed directly into the ambulance, he was conscious, and apparently in pain.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Obama jumped in to help, and Dodd and Kerry and others helped him out of the room to the ambulance. Dodd and Kerry can be seen in a clip that is being rolled now and then at the ambulance site.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: There is a report that Kennedy had already started to “seem much better” as he was getting into the ambulance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we speak, someone is getting medical treatment at the inaugural indoors ceremony lunch thingie. Details will follow. It is not the president or the vp or their immediate families. There are a lot of old people there, it could be almost anything. UPDATE: It was Ted Kennedy, taken away on a stretcher. Hopefully a … Continue reading Medical Emergency at the Inauguration: Kenndy and Byrd!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-18i","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}