What happened to Neil Cavuto on Fox?

NEIL Cavuto is a steady figure on Fox News, but the anchor has faced his fair share of health issues over the years.

The 64-year-old New York native is the host of three different television programs: Your World with Neil Cavuto, Cavuto Live, and Cavuto: Coast to Coast.

What happened to Neil Cavuto?

Despite his busy schedule, Neil Cavuto has been dealing with health concerns for most of his career. 

In 1987, Neil 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 he graduated from St. Bonaventure University with a Bachelor's degree in Mass Communication in 1980.

Neil went on to receive radiation and chemotherapy.

Ten years after his initial diagnosis, the television personality began experiencing symptoms again.

"I was stumbling and falling," the Fox News Channel anchor remembers of the summer of 1997, as he explained to PEOPLE in 2002. 

"I would wake up prickly. My legs felt like stilts."

He was then diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a degenerative neurological disease, in 1997.

"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?"

Is Neil Cavuto still working?

Neil Cavuto has maintained his career despite his diagnosis.

After a five-week break from television, Neil returned to his post on Monday, February 21, 2022.

On August 15, 2022, journalist Charles Payne tweeted that he would be filling in for Neil Cavuto for the day.

On Monday, December 5, 2022, Cavuto was once again filled in by Payne on his Fox News show.

Did Neil Cavuto have Covid-19?

After returning to the airwaves in February of 2022, Neil announced he had once more gotten Covid-19.

"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."

Last year, on October 19, 2021, Neil revealed that he had been diagnosed with Covid-19.

The same afternoon, he was missing from his usual news show.

He was present on "Your World" the previous Monday, on October 18.

"While I'm somewhat stunned by this news, doctors tell me I'm lucky as well," he said in a statement shared by Fox News Media.

"Had I not been vaccinated, and with all my medical issues, this would be a far more dire situation. It's not, because I did and I'm surviving this because I did."

Adding: "I hope anyone and everyone gets that message loud and clear. Get vaccinated, for yourself and everyone around you. Everyone wins, except maybe my wife, who thought I was back in the city for good for live shows. Maybe not so fast now."