“The Secretary, even after having been diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday, kept her full schedule on Friday and was dead-set on attending that 9/11 ceremony on Sunday morning”, Fallon said.
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Clinton abruptly left the ceremony and appeared to stumble while she was waiting for her motorcade.
“I would expect most patients to start feeling fine in a week or two”, Kopas said. But she felt immediately better after getting into her air-conditioned vehicle.
Hillary Clinton is resting, off the campaign trail, as critics claim her failure to disclose her pneumonia diagnosis a kind of lie to voters.
Both candidates have now pledged to release additional details on their health in the coming days, as the race for the White House heats up with eight weeks to go until Election Day.
She will also be releasing new medical records to help ease concerns about her health, a campaign spokesman said.
The incident – captured on amateur video – gave her rival Donald Trump, 70, a new opening to question her fitness for the nation’s highest office.
“I just hope she gets well and gets back on the trail, and we’ll be seeing her at the debate”, he said.
“And I’m encouraging her – if the doctor says take three days off, take six days off. Take the time”.
“Rarely, but on more than one occasion, over the last many, many years, the same sort of thing’s happened to her when she got severely dehydrated”, Bill Clinton told CBS’ Charlie Rose of the Democratic presidential nominee.
As family members of 9/11 victims read the names of the almost 3,000 people killed in the attacks, she made a decision to leave and get a drink of water. “I felt overheated. I decided that I did need to leave, and as soon as I got into the air conditioned van, I cooled off, I got some water, and very quickly, I felt better”, she said.
“It’s not the end of the world-I think she’s OK-but it ain’t good”, a person close to the Clintons told Politico shortly after the nominee left her daughter Chelsea’s Manhattan apartment on Sunday.
“In those 90 minutes, we were putting a priority on making sure she was OK”, Fallon said. “And you know I think it’s fair to say that people know more about me than nearly anyone in public life”.
“Well, if it is (more serious) then it’s a mystery to me and all of her doctors”, Bill Clinton said.
She added that now she is taking her doctor’s advice “to just take some time to get over pneumonia completely”.
On Monday, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed called the reaction to Clinton’s potential health issues sexist and nonsense.
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Later that day, her physician, Dr. Lisa R. Bardack, issued a statement about the former secretary of state’s health.
