CBS Mornings star Gayle King examined optimistic for COVID-19 on Thursday, prompting her to co-host the present from a studio van.
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“CBS Mornings” star Gayle King co-hosted the present from a studio van on Thursday after she and fellow anchor Vlad Duthiers examined optimistic for COVID-19.
The 67-year-old King, who not too long ago introduced that she had signed a contract extension that may maintain her on the Tiffany Community for years to come back, stated she collapsed to the ground after a PCR check revealed she had the coronavirus.
King later gave an replace on her Instagram indicating that it was a “false optimistic” and that she examined destructive “a number of instances.”
A spokesperson for CBS Information informed The Put up that each King and Duthiers examined destructive a number of instances after the present. However the destructive checks got here after a dramatic morning on the set.
King stated Thursday she needed to “actually be picked up” off the bottom by Shawna Thomas, who's govt producer of “CBS Mornings.”
Whereas King co-hosted from a studio van, her co-anchor Tony Dokoupil took his common seat within the present’s Manhattan studio alongside Dana Jacobson.
Duthiers began the present subsequent to Dokoupil and Jacobson, however left mid-broadcast after it was realized that he was doubtlessly uncovered. Later within the present, Dokoupil confirmed that Duthiers, like King, examined optimistic.
King stated she was shocked by the optimistic check since she is often “so freaking cautious.”
King stated she insisted on reporting to work and self-isolating from the published van as a result of she needed to introduce a phase that includes an interview with the mother and father of Bakari Henderson.
Henderson, 22, was an African American man who was overwhelmed to dying by a mob in Greece whereas on a enterprise journey in July 2017.
Jill and Phil Henderson, Bakari’s mother and father, are scheduled to return to Greece for the retrial of the assailants who beat the faculty graduate to dying. Not one of the 9 suspects had been convicted of homicide.
King stated throughout the broadcast Thursday that her sit-down with the Hendersons was “so necessary to her” that she needed to introduce it on the air herself.
She stated that since testing optimistic, she has had a number of different speedy checks return a destructive consequence.
King added that she plans to depart for Los Angeles on Friday for a “long-planned” trip.
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