If it was a non contagious bacteria, and her physician had the C&S results, shy didn't she say what it was, and my point is valid, 72 hours for C&S results, you're guessing for 72 hours.
Half a dozen of her staffers claimed to have pneumonia, that doesn't sound like non infectious bacterial pneumonia.
I'm not going down some insane rabbit hole with you.
This is theatre, and her physician's bought into it.
Once again, you dodge the question, what bacteria that causes lobar pneumonia is contagious?
In fact your comments further demonstrate how very little about pneumonia you actually understand. Sputum culture is no longer required to demonstrate evidence of pneumonia, as a positive imaging finding in an adult is more than sufficient to meet the diagnosis of pneumonia. As it turns out, that is what Secretary Clinton had done.
Most patients with pneumonia are treated with empiric antibiotics, as levofloxacin covers the typical bacterial pathogens in pneumonia.
And what evidence did her staffers also have pneumonia? This time of year, rhinovirus/enterovirus infection is very common (mainly spread by all those children returning to school and spreading it to each other).
But for a third time, what bacteria of the common pathogens of lobar pneumonia are contagious? Here's a hint... none of them are.
