Larry King hospitalized once again due to COVID-19 complications

Veteran talk show host Larry King, after previously spending weeks in the hospital over numerous health, scares, has been hospitalized once again in Los Angeles after testing positive for COVID-19.

The legendary host King, 87, has Type 2 diabetes and has had a long history of medical issues, including several heart attacks, as well as prostate and lung cancer. and angina, a condition caused by reduced blood flow to the heart.

As reported by Daily Mail, his wife, Shawn, and their two kids, Chance, and Cannon cannot visit him either.

 

King hosted CNN’s “Larry King Live” for 25 years, retiring in 2010. His long list of interviewees has ranged from every US president since 1974 to world leaders including Yasser Arafat and Vladimir Putin, and a long list of celebrities as well that included Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando, Barbra Streisand, and many others.

After retiring from mainstream media, Larry King continued to do interviews on his own website. 

 In 2012, he started hosting “Larry King Now” on Ora TV, an on-demand digital network that he co-founded.

As the news of Larry King hospitalized after contracting COVID-19 went public, many of his fans, followers, and co-workers took to social media to extend their wishes: