Post by quetee on Oct 18, 2021 17:54:16 GMT
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UPDATED, with comment from President Joe Biden: Colin Powell, the first Black secretary of state who played an influential role in shaping foreign and military policy in the administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, has died.
His family said on Facebook that he “passed away this morning due to complications from Covid 19. He was fully vaccinated.” It’s unclear how or when Powell contracted Covid-19, but he reportedly also had multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer that hurts the body’s ability to fight infections.
“We want to thank the medical staff at Walter Reed National Medical Center for their caring treatment,” the family said. “We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American.”
Powell was 84.
UPDATED, with comment from President Joe Biden: Colin Powell, the first Black secretary of state who played an influential role in shaping foreign and military policy in the administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, has died.
His family said on Facebook that he “passed away this morning due to complications from Covid 19. He was fully vaccinated.” It’s unclear how or when Powell contracted Covid-19, but he reportedly also had multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer that hurts the body’s ability to fight infections.
“We want to thank the medical staff at Walter Reed National Medical Center for their caring treatment,” the family said. “We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American.”
Powell was 84.
