Rev. Jesse Jackson Moved to Rehab core After COVID-19 diagnosis while His wife, Jacqueline, is Moved to the ICU

in this Monday, Aug. 2, 2021 file photo, Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks to the group throughout a demonstration assisting the voting rights, on Capitol Hill, in Washington. The Rev. Jesse Jackson and his wife, Jacqueline, have been hospitalized after trying out wonderful for COVID-19 according to an announcement Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021.

The household of the Rev. Jesse Jackson announced Friday that the civil rights icon has been transferred to a rehabilitation facility and his spouse, Jacqueline, changed into moved to the intensive care unit as they continue medicine for COVID-19.

This comes after the Jacksons were initially admitted to Chicago's Northwestern Memorial hospital last Saturday after trying out superb for the virus.

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ABC 7 in Chicago studies that while Rev. Jackson, seventy nine, has recovered from COVID-19, his family unit says the symptoms of his Parkinson's disorder have "become more in center of attention." he is now on the Shirley Ryan ability Lab, in response to ABC 7, where he'll endure intensive occupational and actual therapy.

meanwhile, ABC 7 reports that Jacqueline Jackson, seventy seven, is receiving extended oxygen at Northwestern Memorial's ICU.

She remains respiratory on her personal and hasn't been placed on a ventilator.

extra from ABC 7:

Their family unit praised the scientific care Jackson and his wife are receiving, and entreated everybody who has not yet been vaccinated to accomplish that "automatically."

"We proceed to acquire the love that is being poured out to our family from all over the world and it is vastly favored, as we categorical our love and concern for the tens of millions of americans who were victimized with the aid of the COVID-19 virus and its variants. We comprehend this is a deadly ailment so please stay prayerful for all of people who are struggling because of this," the family unit said of their commentary.

Rev. Jackson bought his first dose of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine during a January news convention, and has encouraged Black communities to do the equal. A Jackson household spokesman told NBC Chicago that Jacqueline Jackson has not been vaccinated. He declined to tricky additional.