HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) - The mayor of Hastings said Tuesday he had been admitted to a hospital after experiencing severe symptoms he attributed to a coronavirus infection.
Mayor Corey Stutte issued a statement through the city saying he was taken Monday to a Hastings hospital after an incident that included a fall, seizure, an irregular heartbeat and bleeding on the brain.
Stutte, 39, was being treated in the hospital’s intensive care unit and said in the statement that he expected to recover.
Stutte attributed the problems to long-term effects of his COVID-19 infection.
The Hastings Tribune reported that Stutte and members of his family contracted the coronavirus in the fall. He emerged from a quarantine on Sept. 29.
Stutte had just begun his second four-year term as mayor of Hastings, a city of 25,000 people that is about 25 miles south of Grand Island.
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