Larry King, the radio, television, and podcast host who anchored CNN s
Larry King Live for 15 years, has been hospitalized with COVID-19, according to reports.
King, 87, has been at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for over a week. Isolation protocols at the hospital have prevented his sons from visiting him.
The longtime interviewer has had a host of medical issues recently. He underwent surgery for lung cancer in 2017, and had a procedure in 2019 for angina. In 1987 he had quintuple bypass surgery. He is also a diabetic. In 2020, his son Andy and daughter Chaia both passed away within weeks of one another. They were 65 and 51 respectively.