Noam Chomsky will continue treatment for his illness at home, according to the Brazilian hospital treating him

The 95-year-old intellectual Noam Chomsky left the São Paulo hospital this Tuesday to continue treatment at home, where he was admitted a year ago after suffering a stroke. “Benefícia Portuguesa de São Paulo informs that the patient Avram Noam Chomsky was discharged from the hospital this Tuesday to continue treatment at home,” says the official medical report of the medical center. One of the leading American and world intellectuals left. The medical report is signed by the executive director of the center and a cardiologist.

Chomsky is in Brazil because it is the native country of his wife, linguist Valeria Waseron. Just a few days ago, Folha de S.Paulo It was published that the influential thinker was hospitalized at a medical center in São Paulo, where the couple has a home.

The official medical report comes after a few hours of confusion when some media published that Chomsky had died. The alleged news spread at full speed until it became a trend on the X network. His wife denied that Chomsky had died in response to questions from many people, including Steven Pinker. “Information about the death of Noam Chomsky (in.) Jacobin And New Statesmannow deleted) were greatly exaggerated. I have received confirmation from Valeria, his wife, that he is alive and well,” the cognitive scientist wrote in X.

too much Jacobin As New Statesman They published two obituaries, the second one signed by Yanis Varoufakis, who was Greece’s finance minister.

The American who revolutionized linguistics in the 1950s and was a harsh critic of his country’s foreign policy suffered a stroke a year ago in the United States, where he lived with his wife. Until then, and despite his advanced age, he was still active in the academic and political spheres. He even drove. But the stroke left him bedridden and with serious difficulty communicating. At an undetermined date, Chomsky was transferred to Brazil at the request of Wasserman, who chartered a private plane for the transfer, accompanied by two nurses.

According to the information of Folha Last week, Wasserman decided to move after coming to the conclusion that American doctors did not consider her husband recoverable. The Sao Paulo newspaper claimed Chomsky reads daily the new York Times,

After teaching for several decades at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 2017 he joined the University of Tucson in Arizona.

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