Mitch McConnell has not been seen in public since June 14. That morning, emergency responders were called to his Washington home for an unconscious person in what a dispatcher logged as "cardiac arrest," with a medic reporting CPR in progress at his address. The senator's name does not appear on the call and his office has not confirmed it was him, but the address matches and he was hospitalised the same morning, transported by an Advanced Life Support ambulance, the protocol reserved for critically ill patients. He is 84, a childhood polio survivor, and the longest-serving party leader in the Senate's history. He last cast a vote on June 11.
He has now been in hospital for more than three weeks, and his office still will not say why. The statements have been near-identical throughout: he is "receiving excellent care," he "continues to improve," he is "working closely with staff on Senate business and Kentucky matters."
