And so, on Wednesday, Clinton released more of her medical records to reassure the public that she’s literally fit for the presidency – and not the ailing invalid of the (thoroughly unsubstantiated) narrative that her opponent and many of his supporters perpetuate.
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Speaking to CNN’s Jake Tapper, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta said Wednesday’s disclosures were “pretty similar” to information released by her campaign past year.
So far the 70-year-old Trump had released only 4, gushing paragraphs on his health, written by his doctor Harold Bornstein in December 2015.
Facing criticism about a lack of transparency when it comes to her health, Clinton’s campaign promised to disclose more detailed information about her health this week.
A two-page letter from the 68-year-old’s personal physician, Lisa Bardack, chair of Internal Medicine at CareMount Medical in Mount Kisco, N.Y., says she is “recovering well with antibiotics and rest” and that Clinton “continues to remain healthy and fit to serve as President of the United States”. Clinton’s pneumonia symptoms began around the start of this month, and she saw Bardack on September 2 for a low-grade fever, congestion and fatigue.
Questions were also raised about how contagious her pneumonia was, with Clinton seen in close contact, talking with others, especially a young girl that day.
Clinton was also treated in January for a sinus and ear infection. A CT scan of her brain and sinuses showed no abnormalities and mild chronic sinus inflammation.
Clinton has received two vaccinations against pneumonia – Prevnar and Pneumovax – according to the letter.
Clinton was at home in Chappaqua, New York for a third straight day Wednesday, recovering from a health scare that has rocked her bid to become America’s first woman president. Her cholesterol was normal at 189, LDL at 103, HDL at 56, though her triglycerides were somewhat elevated at 159. But her because she doesn’t smoke, and doesn’t appear to be particularly overweight, he said, and has good cholesterol levels, she doesn’t appear to be at risk for a heart attack.
Her medications include medicine for an underactive thyroid, a blood thinner, an antihistamine (Clarinex) for seasonal allergies, and B-12 for mild anemia.
During a stop in Flint, Michigan on Wednesday, Trump was interrupted by the Methodist pastor at a church he was visiting when he launched into a critique of Clinton’s foreign policy.
Mrs Clinton has spent the past three days out of the public eye, recuperating at her suburban NY home.
Clinton aides say she will return to the campaign trail on Thursday after falling ill in public at the weekend.
“I just talked to her – she’s feeling great and I think she’ll be back out there tomorrow”, former President Bill Clinton said Wednesday, when he stepped in for his wife at a previous scheduled campaign event in Las Vegas. “It’s a insane time we live in, you know, when people think there’s something unusual about getting the flu”.
At the same time, Clinton has criticized Donald Trump for releasing a letter from his doctor earlier a year ago, which contained virtually no objective health information.
Trump then pulled two pieces of paper out of his suit pocket that he said contained test results from his latest physical examination and a letter from Lenox Hill Hospital in NY. The letter said Kaine has never smoked and his alcohol use is “modest”. He’s 5-foot-9 and weighed almost 208 pounds during his last physical in February. His electrocardiogram “was normal with the exception of left atrial enlargement”, Monahan wrote, but that his heart valves were normal and that there was “no evidence of abnormal intracardiac pressures”.
Jesse Lehrich, a foreign policy spokesman for Clinton, swiped at Trump Wednesday over his call last month for the candidates to release more medical information.
The disclosure came as her Republican rival Donald Trump – in a media-savvy move – released new health data of his own during the taping of a medical chat show set to air Thursday.
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Previously, NBC News reported that Trump’s doctor released a hyperbolic letter, which he later admitted he’d written in five minutes, that stated that, if elected, Trump would be “the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency”.
