U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization was kept far more secret than previously known, officials disclosed on Sunday, adding his deputy to a long list of people right up to President Joe Biden who were kept in the dark for days. Austin, who is 70, was admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center’s Intensive Care Unit on New Year’s Day after experiencing severe pain following a still-undisclosed elective medical procedure on Dec. 22.
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