After that, I think the diagnosis is just "bacterial pneumonia," and the modifier "non-contagious" is not part of the diagnosis. The doctor could have said "bacterial pneumonia that is not currently contagious."
I don't know enough to have an opinion whether that is reasonable. I know when my kids had strep infections, there was a period of time that it was highly contagious, and all family members were advised how to take care - but after the antibiotics kicked in, the patient didn't release near as many germs.
I was diagnosed with bacterial pneumonia in June. I had a bad cold first that went into pneumonia. The doc asked if I had been sick and that’s how she diagnosed bacterial pneumonia after an xray showed the pneumonia.
She said she was surprised I was up and walking around, gave me a 5 day course of antibiotics and sent me home.
I never had any other symptoms other than wheezing and never stopped doing what I do. I dam sure didn’t collapse because I had a ‘small nodule in one lung’.