U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton gives a thumbs up as she boards her campaign plane in White Plains, New York, United States September 15, 2016, to resume her campaign schedule following a bout with pneumonia.
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Speaking with reporters after her rally, Clinton said her “senior staff” knew that she was diagnosed with the illness last Friday but did not say when running mate Tim Kaine was informed.
The 68-year-old was evaluated several times and had treatment including a chest scan before she was prescribed with a 10-day course of antibiotics Levaquin. Her campaign later disclosed she had been diagnosed with pneumonia two days earlier.
Trump, 70, knows he could stand to lose a few pounds but otherwise is in great health, campaign adviser Sarah Huckabee Sanders told MSNBC yesterday after the Republican nominee taped an episode of the Dr Oz Show in NY.
In leaks of the Dr. Oz appearance, Trump proudly brandished a one-page summary of his exam by Dr. Harold Bornstein. While her campaign dispatched high-powered surrogates to the stump in her absence – including Bill Clinton and President Obama – the Democratic nominee’s presence could help reset the race once again.
Meanwhile, her rival Donald Trump has also announced the release the details of his recent physical tes this week.
Clinton released medical records in July of previous year that contained some detail about her concussion in December 2012.
The former president is a famously good campaigner and does an admirable job of selling her message to the American people.
Trump’s campaign released the letter from his doctor, Harold Bornstein, MD, a gastroenterologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in NY, before the show aired Thursday.
The release comes amid calls for Trump to make disclosures about his own physical fitness. “It’s a insane time we live in, you know, when people think there’s something unusual about getting the flu”.
But before Clinton went on the plane, she faced some tough questions during an interview with “The Tom Joyner Radio Show”.
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Bardack also listed Clinton’s medication regimen and revealed that early this year, at an intense period in the primary campaign, Clinton developed sinusitis and an increasingly painful ear infection that required the insertion of a tube for drainage. Bornstein said in August that he wrote the letter in five minutes while Trump’s limo waited outside his office.
