Oprah Winfrey Reveals br Recent Bout With Pneumonia While on 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show,' Winfrey says she ended up in a hospital emergency room. The philanthropist and media executive was on the program to discuss her 2020 speaking tour. Oprah Winfrey, br via 'Ellen' Winfrey then added that she went on antibiotics, but the disease br became worse. After visiting a lung specialist, br Oprah said she was ordered br not to fly for at least 30 days. The media mogul was also told to drop any work commitments she br had scheduled until recovery. With her own ordeal now over, Oprah reminded br the audience to get vaccines for br both pneumonia and the flu.