Larry King in New York on 12 November 2018. – Charles Sykes / AP / SIPA
He is one of the most outstanding figures in the history of American television, known for its rolled up shirt sleeves, multicolored ties, suspenders and large glasses. Journalist Larry King contracted the Covid – 19 and has been hospitalized for more than a week in Los Angeles, CNN reported on Saturday CNN , the American television channel on which he worked for 20 years.
Larry King, 87 years old, was admitted to Cedars Sinai Medical Center, according to “a source close to the family,” CNN said. Journalists are very at risk. He suffers from type 2 diabetes and has experienced many medical problems, including several heart attacks, lung cancer and angina, a disease caused by reduced blood flow to the heart.
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The journalist has presented the Larry King Live program for a quarter of a century. He has interviewed all US Presidents since 310 and leaders such as the Palestinian
Yasser Arafat or the Russian Vladimir Poutine, as well as stars like Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando or Barbra Streisand. Larry King left CNN in 1974.
He then continued interviews, published on its site, and launched in 2010 the show Larry King Now on Ora TV, an on-demand Internet channel he co-founded. In 2013, he started to animate there ‘show Politicking with Larry King .