Longtime television host Larry King recently tested positive for Covid-19 and has been hospitalised since then, reported Variety. He is receiving treatment at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, sources close to the King family revealed.
“Larry has fought so many health issues in the last few years and he is fighting this one hard too, he’s a champ,” the source was quoted as saying.
According to a report published on CNN, King has been hospitalised for more than a week. Showbiz 411 was the first to report the news on January first. At the time King was said to be in isolation and unable to receive visits from his family.
Back in 2019 the 87-year-old television host suffered a stroke and had an angioplasty. In 2017, he revealed that he had received treatment for lung cancer. King also had a major heart attack in 1987, for which he underwent quintuple bypass surgery.
King has written two books about his experience with heart disease: Mr. King, You’re Having a Heart Attack: How a Heart Attack and Bypass Surgery Changed My Life in 1989, and Taking On Heart Disease: Famous Personalities Recall How They Triumphed over the Nation’s #1 Killer and How You Can, Too in 2004.
Last year King's two children passed away. His son, Andy, died of a heart attack in July, and his daughter, Chaia, died of lung cancer in August.
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