Once she returned home, Clinton was examined by her physician, Lisa Bardack, who issued a statement saying that the Democratic nominee has been experiencing a cough related to allergies. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), left, and Mayor Bill de Blasio during a ceremony to mark the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in lower Manhattan on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2016.
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About an hour into the ceremony, Clinton became overheated and had to leave early.
Ms Clinton’s departure from the event was not witnessed by the reporters who travel with her campaign and aides provided no information about why she left or her whereabouts for almost two hours.
“During the ceremony, she felt overheated so departed to go to her daughter’s apartment, and is feeling much better”, the statement said.
The incident comes at an inopportune time for the Clinton campaign, which has been fighting Internet rumors about her health after a recent coughing spell which she laughed off by saying “Every time I think about (Donald) Trump I get allergic”.
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Clinton was being treated with antibiotics and had been “advised to rest and modify her schedule”, the doctor said.
Whereas Clinton and her campaign could laugh off questions about her health before today, the “overheating” episode makes it nearly impossible for them to do so.
A Washington Post-ABC News poll out Sunday – conducted in the days before she made the remark – shows Clinton leading Trump 46 percent to 41 percent among likely voters, with a 4.5 percentage-point margin of error.
Bardack, an internist who has been Clinton’s personal doctor since 2001, released a two-page letter in July 2015 that said Clinton was in “excellent physical condition and fit to serve as president of the United States”.
The press detail that accompanies Clinton on the campaign train was given no explanation for her disappearance from where she had been standing with a bunch of other NY political types – so began a series of tweets that the candidate had disappeared. Spokesman Nick Merrill eventually said Clinton had gone to her daughter’s nearby apartment, but refused to say whether the former secretary of state had required medical attention. But with all the other questions about her health swirling around her, the campaign must have been terrified to let on that she was sick at all. “I think on the one hand, it is part of the wacky strategy, just say all these insane things and maybe you can get some people to believe you”. Her doctor attributed that episode to a stomach virus and dehydration. The most notable events in Clinton’s medical record included deep vein thrombosis – or a blood clot, usually in the leg – in 1998 and 2009, a broken elbow in 2009 and a concussion in 2012. Donald Trump has not published a health report but his physician released a handwritten document he said he wrote in 5 minutes.
Her campaign may well try to dismiss this story as nothing more than an isolated incident, meaning nothing. Clinton also hugged and took a picture with a little girl who was allowed past the security line.
Clinton has no known drug allergies, does not smoke, use tobacco products or illicit drugs and drinks occasionally, according to Bardack, who also details her exercise regime: yoga, swimming, walking and weight training.
That talk was largely confined to Republicans convinced that Clinton has always been hiding some sort of serious illness.
-She had full cardiac testing, including an ultrasound exam of arteries in her neck, and all was well.
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“What the Clinton campaign needs to do over the course of the next several days is demonstrate her vitality and viability”.
