Her campaign had been pressed to be more transparent about Mrs Clinton’s health, particularly after it failed to reveal her Friday pneumonia diagnosis until Sunday, when she almost collapsed as she left the Ground Zero site in NY. She was treated with Levaquin, an antibiotic, and advised to take it for 10 days.
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Clinton has not campaigned since Sunday, after she left a September 11 memorial service after her campaign said she became overheated and dehydrated.
The 68-year-old since then has been sidelined from the campaign trail by a bout of pneumonia-an illness diagnosed Friday, before the 9/11 event, that has raised broader questions about her health.
Clinton’s Republican rival Donald Trump will also reveal the results of his own recent medical exam during a TV show set to be aired on Thursday, said a daily report by The Hill, a top USA political website.
The 68-year-old Clinton said that although she was “feeling so much better”, she had made a decision to listen to her doctors and take a few days off from campaigning to get well. “She continues to remain healthy and fit to serve”. The examination included a “non-contrast chest CT scan”, the results of which showed Clinton had “small right middle-lobe pneumonia”.
The documentation adds little to the previous health records she divulged a year ago, which stated that Clinton has low cholesterol and has seasonal allergies. Her campaign later acknowledged she had been diagnosed with pneumonia last week.
The Clinton campaign also released a letter from Tim Kaine’s doctor, Brian Monahan, who pronounced the vice-presidential nominee in “overall excellent health”.
In a sign of the distrust of a woman widely regarded as an “establishment” candidate, Clinton’s reappearance outside her daughter’s apartment, in apparent high spirits just a few hours after collapsing, has fed conspiracy rumours that she uses a body double.
“I’m feeling so much better. and obviously I should have gotten some rest sooner”, she told Cooper.
Meanwhile, Bill Clinton said his wife was “doing fine” and insisted “she just got dehydrated”.
Clinton plans to resume campaigning Thursday.
Obama also took a swipe at the Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, saying the NY businessman “isn’t fit in any way shape or form to represent this country overseas and be its commander in chief”.
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Donald Trump has fueled some of those accusations, with the GOP nominee suggesting she “lacks the mental and physical stamina” to be president.
