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Tanglewood in the summer of one thousand nine hundred bernstein had almost no strength left not even for home for program. he had an oxygen tank and a breathing machine and it was not going well we could see that it was for he was really in decline i could see that in the middle of the slow movement he had a coughing fit and. i thought you know what he may just go down right down. very interesting after his last concert tanglewood he went back to new york and i followed later with. materials and everything and i walked into his study and he was sitting at his desk and he looked almost angelic....

Typically into the blood stream. and what happens as a result of that, is that the body reacts by trying to fight the infection. and that can cause someone's blood pressure to drop, their heart rate to become unstable, and that's typically what leads to the -- not only the need for hospitalization, but need for intensive care, being in the icu. at times, it can also interfere with one's ability to breathe well on their own, necessitating the need for a breathing machine. so that happens realtime, and pretty quickly, those assessments being made in the intensive care unit, compounded by his age...

And an end of an era, this reagan/bush era of decorum. and it is sad. >> just on the medical front, we know she was diagnosed with graves disease, but in the last few years, it was congestive heart failure and copd. >> and she was healthy, she got the graves disease in the late '80s. that was about it until age 90. copd is a significant inflammation of the air ways. conic obstructive pulmonary disease. it becomes harder to breathe. in the worst case situations somebody needs to be on a breathing machine. the heart is pumping blood to the lungs but the lungs because

Copd is a significant inflammation of the air ways. conic obstructive pulmonary disease. it becomes harder to breathe. in the worst case situations somebody needs to be on a breathing machine. the heart is pumping blood to the lungs but the lungs because they are so constricted, makes it harder for the heart to do that and the heart begins to fail as well. that is when it does become concerning and this led to recent hospitalization. she talked about this idea of palliative care which doesn't mean no care. it just means people are still made comfortable but not doing things that are aggressive...

Today his family said he was shot multiple times in the chest and that he needs breathing assistance. what could that mean, needing breathing assistance? >> well, he was shot in the chest. he's almost assuredly had injuries to his lungs and either in part because of the inadequate capacity of the lungs right now or because they just want to give those parts of the lungs a chance to rest and recover and heal. they would keep him on the breathing machine. a machine that basically takes over those functions for him. he was also, i read, the report, he's also writing. you know, he's got this tube ...