Fox News Channel anchor Neil Cavuto returned to the air following a five-week absence and revealed he was in the ICU battling COVID-induced pneumonia.
The longtime host, who is fully vaccinated and had already battled COVID-19 in October, said the second bout nearly killed him, reports The Daly Mail.
'I did get COVID again - but a far, far more serious strand, what doctors call ''COVID pneumonia,''' he said during his Coast to Coast with Cavuto Monday morning segment on the Fox Business Network.
'It landed me in intensive care for quite a while and it really was touch-and-go... Some of you who've wanted to put me out of my misery darn near got what you wished for! So, sorry to disappoint you!' Cavuto joked.
'This was scary. How scary? I'm talking, ''Ponderosa suddenly out of the prime rib in the middle of the buffet line scary!'' That's how scary.'
'...Let me be clear, doctors say had I not been vaccinated at all, I wouldn't be here,' he added.
The host also called out anti-vaxxers who suggested he suffered complications from the coronavirus because he was vaccinated and urged viewers to get the jab.
'The vaccine didn't cause that. That grassy knoll theory has come up a lot. My very compromised immune system did... I'm among the vulnerable three percent or so of the population that cannot sustain the full benefits of a vaccine,' he said.
Fox News/Business host Neil Cavuto explains on air that he was out for a while because he was hospitalized with Covid, adds, "doctors say that had I not been vaccinated at all, I wouldn't be here."
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Cavuto is severely immunocompromised, having gone through open-heart surgery in 2016 and receiving treatment for cancer in the 1980s. He was also diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1997.
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