Fox Business host Neil Cavuto reveals he almost died from COVID

Fox Information anchor Neil Cavuto revealed that he nearly died from a second bout of COVID-19.
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Fox Enterprise host Neil Cavuto returned to the air Monday and ended the thriller of his five-week absence — revealing that he nearly died from a second bout of COVID-19.

“I did get COVID once more — however a far, way more critical strand, what docs name ‘COVID pneumonia,'” the 63-year-old host advised his viewers as he returned to “Cavuto: Coast to Coast” present.

“It landed me in intensive look after fairly some time and it actually was touch-and-go,” he admitted.

“A few of you who’ve needed to place me out of my distress darn close to received what you wished for,” he joked, including, “Sorry to disappoint you.”

In addition to noting readers’ letters speculating that he had died, Cavuto additionally mocked the “grassy knoll principle” that he’d been sickened by getting vaccinated, which he insisted had as an alternative saved his life.

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Neil Cavuto ended the thriller of his five-week absence.

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“No, the vaccine didn’t trigger that. … My very compromised immune system did.

“As a result of I’ve had most cancers and proper now I've a number of sclerosis, I’m among the many susceptible three p.c or so of the inhabitants that can't maintain the complete advantages of a vaccine.

“In different phrases, it merely doesn’t final,” he defined, whereas stressing that “some protection was nonetheless higher than no protection.”

Fox Information anchor Neil Cavuto mentioned he requested the community to not say something about his analysis.

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“Let me be clear: docs say had I not been vaccinated in any respect, I wouldn’t be right here,” he insisted.

He mentioned his community solely remained mum about his near-death battle as a result of he “requested them to not say something.”

“They had been honoring my needs out of respect for my privateness, though they had been getting a whole lot of warmth attempting to guard my privateness,” he mentioned.

Neil Cavuto was in intensive care throughout his COVID-19 battle.

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Whereas he didn't wish to be “the story,” he advised his viewers that they “actually do deserve an evidence from me” given how lengthy he was absent and the wild theories that had been spreading about it.

“This was scary. How scary? I’m speaking, ‘Ponderosa out of the blue out of the prime rib in the midst of the buffet line scary,'” he quipped of the steakhouse chain on the finish of his clarification.