This is worrisome for several reasons.
Pneumonia used to be called “the old man’s friend”, because the stress of lung problems can be very deadly to the elderly, and pneumonia is often an opportunistic disease.
“The menace posed by germs resistant to powerful antibiotics was all too apparent when a deadly, drug-
resistant form of pneumonia bacteria struck the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., last year. It infected 17 patients and killed 6 of them.
“This episode is especially chilling because the center is one of the nation’s most sophisticated research hospitals. It imposed incredibly stringent isolation and sterilization procedures, yet even these failed to keep the germ from spreading.
The scary part of the story is that a woman was treated at the hospital for the drug resistant pneumonia, in strict isolation, then released, and then, *weeks later*, other patients became sick with the disease.
And the disease in the new patients was identical to the disease in “patient zero”, indicating that it had come from her.
Possible this lingering illness is a bit of dementia and he is in a private room in a skilled nursing unit...many hospitals have these and people are put there for 90 days for testing and seeing if it will get more serious...with their money I'm sure they can afford private around the clock nurses at their home...the Reagen's did for the President..