John Fetterman, the senior U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, was hospitalized on Nov. 13 after falling down and hitting his face due to a heart-related issue.
Fetterman, a Democrat first elected in 2022, was walking in the morning near his home in Braddock, Pennsylvania, a suburban area surrounding the City of Pittsburgh. Due to a “a ventricular fibrillation flare,” a condition where the heart stops pumping blood to parts of the body, he became “light-headed” and then fell to the ground, “hitting his face with minor injuries,” according to a statement released by his Senate office on social media.
