NEIL Cavuto returned to Fox News today and revealed he had been hospitalized with Covid-induced pneumonia.

Hundreds of fans voiced their concerns over the past few weeks after spotting the host's absence.

"Welcome, everybody, I’m Neil Cavuto…substituting today for…well, Neil Cavuto!" he said this morning.

He went on to address speculation that he had been sick, or even died, before confessing the real reason that he was missing.

"I did get Covid again…but a far, far more serious strand…what doctors call Covid pneumonia," he said.

"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!"

The host went on to address how the Covid vaccine helped him to battle the virus.

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"But no, the vaccine didn’t cause that. That grassy knoll theory has come up a lot. My very compromised immune system did. Because I’ve had cancer and right now I have Multiple Sclerosis, I’m among the vulnerable three percenters or so of the population that cannot sustain the full benefits of a vaccine. In other words, it simply doesn’t last.

"But let me be clear, doctors say had I not been vaccinated at all, I wouldn’t be here. It provided some defense, but that is still better than no defense. Maybe not great comfort for some of you. And frankly, not great comfort for me either!"

Cavuto is among Fox News' most popular hosts with over 500,000 followers on Twitter.

He hosts three programs across the Fox Network, Your World with Neil Cavuto, Cavuto Live – both on Fox News – and Cavuto: Coast to Coast on the sister channel Fox Business Network.

Despite his busy schedule, Cavuto has been missing from all of his Fox Network shows for the past several weeks.

The news anchor last hosted Cavuto: Coast to Coast on January 11, as the show has since seen a string of guests hosts.

Since January 12, all of Cavuto's shows have been hosted by Fox correspondents Charles Payne, Ashley Webster, Edward Lawrence, David Asman, Sandra Smith or Jackie DeAngelis.

On January 17, Payne tweeted he'll be hosting Your World with Neil Cavuto.

America Reports co-anchor Smith hosted the program on January 20 and 21.

Payne returned as a guest host of the program the following week.

Fox News declined to comment when approached by The US Sun concerning Cavuto's status.

Despite his absence, Cavuto's official Twitter account has continued to announce guest hosts and update his show's latest episodes.

HEALTH BATTLES

The Fox host has been dealing with health concerns for most of his career.

In 1987, Cavuto was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma – a type of cancer that attacks the body’s immune system.

He was diagnosed just a few years into his career after graduating from St. Bonaventure University with a degree in mass communication in 1980.

He received radiation and chemotherapy, but the television personality began experiencing worrying symptoms again ten years later.

“I was stumbling and falling,” the Fox News anchor remembered of the summer of 1997, as he explained to People in 2002. 

“I would wake up prickly. My legs felt like stilts.”

But the symptoms were not actually due to the lymphoma. Instead, he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a degenerative neurological disease.

“For three or four days, I was silent,” he told People.

“I didn’t want to talk to anyone. I was very angry at the world. What the hell did I do? Was I a Nazi stormtrooper in a prior life?”

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