(20 Feb 2025)
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Rome, Italy – 20 February 2025
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1. Various of hospital where Pope Francis is being treated
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Pope Francis was continuing his recovery from pneumonia, eating breakfast out of bed on Thursday morning after a sixth peaceful night at the hospital, the Vatican said.
Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni issued a new update after confirming late Wednesday that new blood tests showed a “slight improvement” in some inflammation indices for the 88-year-old pontiff, who had an acute case of pneumonia in 2023 and is prone to respiratory infections in winter.
Francis was visited Wednesday by Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, his first known VIP visitor.
She reported after their 20-minute visit that Francis was in good spirits and had “joked around as always.”
Francis was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli hospital February 14 after a bout of bronchitis worsened.
Doctors on Tuesday diagnosed pneumonia in both lungs, on top of a polymicrobial infection in his respiratory tract, meaning a combination of bacteria, viral and other organisms.
He is taking a combination of antibiotics and cortisone for what doctors also diagnosed as asthmatic bronchitis.
Doctors say pneumonia in such a fragile, elderly patient makes him particularly prone to complications given the difficulty in being able to effectively expel fluid from his lungs.
While his heart is strong, Francis isn’t a particularly healthy 88-year-old.
He isn’t physically active, uses a wheelchair because of bad knees, had part of one lung removed as a young man, and has admitted to being a not-terribly-cooperative patient in the past.
AP video shot by: Andrea Rosa
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