LOL everyone knows that disease are not always contagious and requires what phase they are in to be defined as "contagious". Sorry Republican shit-pipe suckers.
You just dont' know much about science.
that which is called "walking pneumonia" is caused by a tiny
atypical bacterium ---Mycoplama pneumonia-----It is usually seen in young adults----sometimes in children---and ONCE ANTIBIOTIC therapy is instituted it virtually non-contagious. It is----(as far as I recall---so don't quote me) diagnosed on its
very typical Xray findings) I think I read that she is on Levoquin (that stuff will knock mycoplasma pneumonia not only out of her but the WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD)--- thus she is no threat to anyone
Does that mean she was contagious from Friday, and maybe a few days before, when she was finally diagnosed with pneumonia? Why didn't the Doctor advise her then to rest and not make contact with other people? Do you think she was given Levoquin before she left Chelsea's apartment and greeted a little girl and was in contact with Chelsea and her children? So many questions, and I hope you have some answers.
How would I know? There those aspects of her record were not revealed. The pathogen Mycoplasma pneumonia IS contagious-------not so much--but it is transmitted person to person from a person with untreated infection. In fact the infection itself can be asymptomatic in some people---People with the infection are not QUARANTINED. She is not like you and me-------she was UNDER TREATMENT with Coumadin and THEREFORE monitored with blood tests and someone likely put a stethoscope on her chest LOTS OF TIMES-----
The blood test for Coumadin would not include a test for
"cold agglutinins" <<<something seen in mycoplasma pneumonia people---but NON-SPECIFIC ----my guess is
that she was diagnosed and was under treatment----if I remember correctly ( will google sometime today) The
chest Xray of such patients plus clinical findings are virtually diagnostic.------some kind of weird fluffy exudates---here and there. I believe that in very compromised people it can be fatal------but so can just about any other bacterial or viral infection
(relying on remote memory)