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Neighbor of mine mentioned this to me this morning (he works for NASA dealing with spacecraft communications - and has been in the control centre for a number of missions as a result). Didn't have a source to post here then, so thanks for finding one.

She won't, because unlike the Senator from PA, there's no immediate need for her to do so. It wouldn't be a risk for her health to finish out the term (unlike his) - even though she seemingly barely has a clue anymore. She's been like that for at least the past 5-10 years, so it's nothing really new. It's just gotten a bit worse as of late. I don't think she'll step down before her term is done unless forced.

Nope! Covid!

If it more than doubles, which it very well could, it stands a good chance of getting into 3rd. No chance it gets higher than that though.

The difference between the two lies in that it's not a danger to Feinstein's health to finish her term - which ends next year I believe. It likely is for Fetterman, especially as he seems to be significantly impared even compared to colleagues 30 years his senior. Not even talking about whatever they potentially found during this hospitalisation.

The question is, if him being in DC and serving as a Senator is damaging to his health (notwithstanding that the NYT noted he already screwed himself over by campaigning as hard as he did to get elected in the first place), how long can he realistically stay a Senator? Surely he'd resign if things got worse... Although with his condition as the article outlines, I'm not sure how much worse he can get while being able to properly serve.

John Fetterman, newly-sworn in Junior Senator from Pennsylvania, was hospitalized from Wednesday until today. Apparently he was hospitalised due to feeling "lightheaded". As a NYT article notes, he seems to have, even before this, significant complications from his stroke last May.

In a similar way to a relative of hers with similar movement issues?

From what I understand from a Turkish associate of mine, very very high might be an understatement considering it was felt from Israel to Istanbul...

Arguably, the BBC would be right to put a breaking news notification on the news, as she was the wife of the Welsh FM. Same if Boris' wife, or Sturgeon's husband died, particularly if it was unexpected as it seemed to be in this case. Northern Ireland doesn't have a FM right now, so they don't particularly get to factor into this discussion, but they would if they did.