Three weeks ago, emergency responders performed CPR on someone at the residence of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), possibly for cardiac arrest. Although the identity of that person has not been confirmed, it almost certainly is the 84-year-old senator, who has remained hospitalized since then.

The Democratic governor of Kentucky, Andy Beshear, requested a full disclosure of McConnell’s health in a letter to the lawmaker.

“As governor, I request that you fully update Kentuckians regarding the current status of your health,” he wrote, saying that the people of Kentucky are growing increasingly concerned about McConnell’s health and his capacity to serve as senator.

Although his staff has said nothing about the details of his health, last week they released a statement saying that the senator “appreciates the outpouring of support he’s receiving while he continues his recovery in the hospital” and that he “continues to improve, and is working closely with his staff on Kentucky and Senate matters while the Senate is out of session.”

That is doubtful, considering that McConnell has missed 20 votes during his absence, including a crucial one on limiting the president’s war powers that passed by a razor-thin majority.

Laura Loomer, a right-wing political activist, claimed earlier this week that McConnell is “brain dead.”

“Mitch McConnell is being kept ‘alive’ by life support machines, but my White House source told me McConnell is in organ failure, and as I reported, [the] source told me he has allegedly been declared a vegetable (brain dead) by doctors and the White House has been told ‘McConnell isn’t ever coming back,'” she wrote on X.

“Officially brain dead, organ failure is accelerating, life support machine is keeping him ‘alive’ but his brain is officially dead,” she added, repeating that the lawmaker is brain dead three times to drive home her point.

Nevertheless, several people said they held extended discussions with McConnell by phone during his prolonged hospitalization.

Scott Jennings, a former advisor to the senator, said Tuesday that he spoke to him by phone for nearly 20 minutes.

“We talked for just shy of 20 minutes … about IRAN, UKRAINE, the unfolding situation in MAINE, my visit to the TR Presidential Library, and even a little bit of Senate history,” he said pointedly on X.

McConnell and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) “had a lengthy and substantive conversation that covered a variety of topics, including national security,” a spokesperson for Thune said in a statement Tuesday.

Kate Noyes, a spokesperson for Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), also said the two held a lengthy, nearly 20-minute talk by phone in which they covered “the latest news impacting Senate races, the Graham Platner scandal and the recent Supreme Court ruling on coordinated spending limits.”

“Senator McConnell was fully engaged and is eager to get back to the Senate,” she added.

But when asked by reporters Wednesday if he knew McConnell’s status, President Donald Trump said, “I have no idea how he’s doing.”

But without details of his current health status, and given his past history of frequent falls and of freezing while talking to reporters, speculation about his actual condition is running rampant.