Overview
- Murphy began feeling numbness last Saturday at his son’s hockey game, called 9-1-1, was treated at a local hospital and then transferred to Johns Hopkins for further care.
- Johns Hopkins clinicians diagnosed a small hemorrhagic stroke — a tiny bleed in the thalamus — and say he has shown strong progress in the hospital.
- He was discharged on Friday and moved to a rehabilitation facility where he will spend several weeks and miss multiple Senate votes as he recovers.
- Murphy’s office says he will stay engaged with staff and colleagues remotely while his team continues legislative and constituent work.
- The senator, 53, serves on major committees and holds a Democratic caucus leadership post, so his absence could affect committee business and party operations; other senators who suffered strokes have returned to work with accommodations.