Clinton team acknowledges missteps

Campaign vows to release more health information soon

Hillary Clinton’s campaign acknowledged its handling of the Democratic presidential nominee’s health episode Sunday could have been better and announced it would release more information this week.

Campaign spokesman Brian Fallon, speaking with MSNBC on Monday, said additional details about Clinton’s health would be made public “in the next few days,” but there was “no other undisclosed condition.” Sunday, the campaign released a statement from Clinton’s doctor stating the candidate had been diagnosed with pneumonia Friday.

Clinton called in to CNN on Monday evening and said she did not disclose her pneumonia diagnosis earlier because she “didn’t think it was going to be that big a deal” and called on the press to hold Donald Trump to the “same standard” of transparency.

Clinton attended a 9/11 memorial ceremony at Ground Zero on Sunday but left, feeling unwell.

Monday, Fallon said on CNN that Clinton was not contagious and defended the campaign’s decision not to share her diagnosis Friday because “it was her intent to press on and not let pneumonia affect her.” But “we should have provided more information more quickly,” he said.

Jennifer Palmieri, Clinton’s communication director, said the campaign “could have done better” with its handling of the health episode in response to a Twitter message from Obama strategist David Axelrod, in which he hit Clinton for “an unhealthy penchant for privacy.” Palmieri tweeted that Trump was “less transparent than any nominee in modern history.”