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| The health of 68-year-old Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has again fallen under the media spotlight, but this time due to a serious health issue. Less than two months from elections, Clinton has been confirmed to be suffering from pneumonia. | The health of 68-year-old Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has again fallen under the media spotlight, but this time due to a serious health issue. Less than two months from elections, Clinton has been confirmed to be suffering from pneumonia. |
| Dr. Lisa Bardack, Clinton’s personal doctor since 2001, released a statement through the Clinton campaign which said the former secretary of state had been diagnosed with pneumonia during a follow-up examination regarding her prolonged cough. | Dr. Lisa Bardack, Clinton’s personal doctor since 2001, released a statement through the Clinton campaign which said the former secretary of state had been diagnosed with pneumonia during a follow-up examination regarding her prolonged cough. |
| Clinton has been “advised to rest and modify her schedule,” and was put on antibiotics on Friday, her doctor said. “She is now re-hydrated and recovering nicely,” Bardack said, referring to the earlier explanation of “overheating and dehydration” given for Clinton’s abrupt departure from the 9/11 event. | Clinton has been “advised to rest and modify her schedule,” and was put on antibiotics on Friday, her doctor said. “She is now re-hydrated and recovering nicely,” Bardack said, referring to the earlier explanation of “overheating and dehydration” given for Clinton’s abrupt departure from the 9/11 event. |
| The media expressed suspicion over Clinton’s exit from the event after there were accounts that she had stumbled and had to be helped inside her car. Video footage later emerged which showed this to be the case. “Secretary Clinton attended the September 11 Commemoration Ceremony for just an hour and 30 minutes this morning to pay her respects and greet some of the families of the fallen,” campaign spokesman Nick Merrill said. “During the ceremony, she felt overheated so departed to go to her daughter’s apartment, and is feeling much better.”The Democratic presidential candidate was driven to her daughter Chelsea’s home. She later appeared outside and was driven to her own home in Cappaqua. | The media expressed suspicion over Clinton’s exit from the event after there were accounts that she had stumbled and had to be helped inside her car. Video footage later emerged which showed this to be the case. “Secretary Clinton attended the September 11 Commemoration Ceremony for just an hour and 30 minutes this morning to pay her respects and greet some of the families of the fallen,” campaign spokesman Nick Merrill said. “During the ceremony, she felt overheated so departed to go to her daughter’s apartment, and is feeling much better.”The Democratic presidential candidate was driven to her daughter Chelsea’s home. She later appeared outside and was driven to her own home in Cappaqua. |
| Clinton’s diagnosis will potentially throw her scheduled campaign appearances into disarray. She was set to appear at events in both San Francisco and Los Angeles on Monday and Tuesday, and a rally in Las Vegas on Wednesday, but her campaign has said that her schedule is now under discussion. | Clinton’s diagnosis will potentially throw her scheduled campaign appearances into disarray. She was set to appear at events in both San Francisco and Los Angeles on Monday and Tuesday, and a rally in Las Vegas on Wednesday, but her campaign has said that her schedule is now under discussion. |
| ‘Clinton campaign keeps legitimate health questions hushed’ | |
| Clinton’s health became the subject of numerous articles and conspiracies long before the 9/11 episode. Critics have said that the Democratic campaign has failed to be transparent on the subject, adding that this could worsen the impact of the news on the election’s outcome. | |
| Former US diplomat Jim Jatras told RT a candidate’s health issues should be deemed a “legitimate question” as the voters are entitled to know if their pick is 100 percent up to the job. | |
| “A large part of the presidential election: who would rather have a beer with, who would you rather have as your uncle, who would you look and looks and sounds like a leader is opposed to somebody who seems feeble and frail and not up to the job,” Jatras said, adding that Clinton’s health issues are obviously playing to her disadvantage in the presidential race. | |
| Jatras believes that despite the current uproar the Clinton campaign is not going to change its tactics and will try to downplay her health troubles and instead blame the media of blowing them out of proportion. | |
| “They are going to give out dribs and drabs of information, that try to create the best possible interpretation of her health situation,” Jatras said, adding that Clinton’s team try to “keep a cocoon” out of fear that some unpleasant facts can get leaked to the press. | |
| “What short-lived in this context is how many episodes have there been that we haven’t seen on camera, we don’t know that anything they are telling us is the truth,” he argued. |