BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - North Dakota’s longest-serving Supreme Court justice is back in the hospital after he was released to another facility for rehabilitation following treatment for the coronavirus.
Justice Gerald VandeWalle. 87, who was released from Sanford Health Bismarck’s COVID-19 unit a week ago, was readmitted Monday following a chest X-ray, the Bismarck Tribune reported.
“There was a little clot in my lung, and I think that was troublesome to them, and I’m short of breath, and that’s it, but that’s a lot,” VandeWalle said by phone Friday from his room.
VandeWalle said earlier he isn’t sure how he contracted COVID-19. He had been working from the state Capitol amid the pandemic and has worn a mask and gloves while shopping.
VandeWalle, who has been on the court for 42 years, served as chief justice from 1993 through 2019.
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