“She has spent the day catching up on reading briefings, making calls, and she watched President Obama’s speech in Philadelphia on TV”, Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill said, according to CNN.
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“Thanks to everyone who’s reached out with well wishes!”
“I just want to get this over and done with and get back on the trail as soon as possible”, Clinton said, predicting she would get back to campaigning “in the next couple of days”. Pneumonia is “going around”, she added.
“I probably would have been better off if I’d just pulled down my schedule on Friday”, Clinton said on CNN, adding: “I just didn’t think it was going to be that big a deal”. They revealed that much of her team had also fallen ill with pneumonia, and acknowledged they could have handled Clinton’s illness better.
The campaign had initially said Clinton, 68, was suffering from the heat.
“Well if it is, it’s a mystery to me and all of her doctors”, Bill Clinton replied, before noting that “frequently ― well not frequently, rarely ― but on more than one occasion, over the last many, many years, the same sort of thing happened to her when she got severely dehydrated”.
Hillary Clinton on Monday sought to control the fallout from a media swirl around her health after she wobbled away from a 9/11 ceremony and her campaign said she had pneumonia.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton arrives to attend a ceremony at the National September 11 Memorial, in New York, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2016, on the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. “I’ve always seen her get up earlier and stay up later”. Clinton addressed her supporters via teleconference. Clinton said she felt dizzy and she did lose her balance for a minute. “It’s a handsome day in NY”.
A stomach virus and dehydration prompted her to faint, causing what her doctor said was a concussion.
The presidential candidate was due at two Los Angeles fundraisers on Tuesday, which husband Bill Clinton will now headline.
An outbreak of respiratory illness swept through Hillary Clinton’s campaign in the weeks before she was diagnosed with pneumonia, campaign aides said Monday. “I mean they’ve been in the business for years and they keep a lot of secrets”, said Jason Clark with the San Fran cisco Republican Party.
But he also said Clinton’s health issues were of longer standing than admitted, and promised to release “very, very specific numbers” from a medical exam he took last week.
The incident on Sunday raised questions drummed up by Republicans in recent months over her health and a purported penchant for secrecy and lack of transparency.
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John McCain, who suffered from well-documented war injuries in the hands of the North Vietnamese, allowed reporters to review hundreds of pages of his medical records.
