Hillary Clinton’s doctor has revealed the US Democratic presidential candidate was diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday.
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Her doctor said Sunday evening that Clinton had become overheated and dehydrated at the event in lower Manhattan. The campaign is reviewing whether to reschedule fundraising events in California on Monday and Tuesday.
Mrs Clinton can be seen leaning against a bollard to keep her upright, but as a vehicle pulls up for her to get in, she struggles to make it two feet to the auto.
The physician said Ms Clinton has had an allergy-related cough, and during a follow-up examination on Friday she was diagnosed with pneumonia, put on antibiotics and advised to rest and modify her schedule. “The pool was left behind when she abruptly left the memorial, and was not kept apprised of what was happening in real time“. “It was pretty hot out there, but she seemed fine to me, and left on her own accord”, he told the Times.
As she exited the apartment building to return home in Chappaqua, New York, just north of New York City, Clinton told reporters: “I’m feeling great, it’s a attractive day in New York”.
The health statement says the blood clot, also known as a thrombosis, that Clinton suffered between her brain and skull following a fainting spell and concussion in late 2012 is completely resolved.
She also struggled with a cough during a question-and-answer session with reporters aboard her campaign plane last week.
Neither Trump nor Clinton spoke at the event, in keeping with the solemn nature of the annual remembrance of the deadliest terror attack on American soil. She waved and thanked supporters – she even took a photograph with a young girl.
Past presidential candidates have released much more detailed information about their health than either Trump, 70, or Clinton.
Democratic Representative Joe Crowley of NY, a Clinton supporter who attended the event, told Reuters that it was “incredibly, stiflingly hot” during the ceremony.
“It’s a lovely day”, she told the crowd. “What I can tell you is that many of us (had) a sigh of relief when a gust of wind would come by because it was incredibly stifling”, Democratic Congressman Joe Crowley, who stood near Clinton for about an hour at the ceremony, told MSNBC. He said he was sweating through his shirt.
A Twitter video posted under the account Zdenek Gazda showed a wobbly looking Clinton being helped into a van upon leaving the memorial service.
Clinton suffered a two-minute coughing fit during an event in Cleveland last week, which she blamed on allergies.
She emerged from the apartment building unassisted.
“I would love to give specifics, as far as I’m concerned”. Senior Fox News correspondent Rick Leventhal tweeted that her “knees buckled” and she lost a shoe as she was being helped away.
Speaking to the Times, other attendees at the Sunday morning ceremony said Clinton did not appear ill when she first arrived. Follow-up exams found a blood clot, forcing her to seek treatment in a NY hospital.
HILLARY CLINTON: Feeling great. Her campaign later said she had “felt overheated”.
About 90 minutes elapsed before the campaign issued a statement.
Clinton, 68, felt ill Sunday at the ceremony commemorating the 2001 terrorist attacks at Ground Zero and departed for her daughter’s apartment in NY.
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The statement offered no additional details, including whether Clinton required medical attention.
