Fox News’ John Roberts Hospitalized with ‘Severe’ Malaria After ‘Uncontrolled Shivering’ On-Air

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  1. TLDR:

    * Fox News anchor John Roberts is currently battling a severe case of [malaria](https://people.com/five-cases-of-locally-acquired-malaria-found-in-florida-texas-7553835). The 68-year-old opened up to PEOPLE about his health scare and said he was diagnosed with the parasitic mosquito-borne illness on Monday, Aug. 25.
    * “I had been hurting from the top of my head to the tip of my toes. Literally everywhere. I was also beset with uncontrolled shivering all during my show,” he tells PEOPLE. “Initially, I thought it was just muscle cramps and aches. But when I started shivering, I started to lean toward the flu.”
    * Roberts says he “knew it was bad” when his blood work showed that his platelets and white blood cells were both low. “My rheumatologist told me to go to the ER,” he recalls. “I don’t know exactly how ‘severe’ it was from a medical classification, but it sure felt severe. I have never felt that sick in my life.”

  3. I saw John Roberts severe malaria and was happy til I realized it was a different John Roberts.

  4. Good thing Fox & co believes in science and academia when it’s convenient. Every single ER visit from conservatives is actual hypocrisy…. not that they care anymore.

  5. If only there was a prophylactic tablet that someone could take to avoid malaria.

    If only.

  6. I’m having pepperoni pizza for dinner tonight? Anyone here into pizza?

  11. Every time I see this guy I can’t believe he used to be JD Roberts from Much Music.

  13. Fake news. That’s a made up disease and even if it is real it’s just the same as the mildest form of the common cold. And the medicine for it is all B.S. it’s just a bunch of nanobots.

  14. For those who aren’t Canadian and over 50 years old, this Fox News host John Roberts was a fixture of Canada’s equivalent of MTV as one of two top VJ hosts. Like Alan Hunter or JJ Jackson on MTV. The Canadian equivalent is called MuchMusic

  16. Fake News! He’s faking it and it’s all a hoax

  17. Oh no! Couldn’t have happened to a bigger piece of shit!

  18. Thoughts and prayers for that malaria, let’s hope it pulls through

  19. You know malaria was endemic to the American south until the CDC eradicated it. I wonder how the cdc is doing right now. Jfc

  20. In the famous words of Republican Senator Joni Ernst, “Well, we all are going to die” 🥴

  21. “That shivering? That’s not malaria, that’s a sudden realization what you’ve done to Democracy in this country, Roberts. Those paying attention have been doing that for years.”

  22. This is the same Fox News that spread Covid disinformation, contributing to the deaths of a million plus people in America.

  23. Secretary Kennedy has a cure for that. Shame he didn’t diagnose him sooner just by looking at him, tho.

  24. No more medicines he should be give ivermectin- good for all illness

  25. Dang! I read Fox News’ John Roberts but in my head I still went to the wrong one.

    There is nothing called “severe” malaria. That IS malaria – all that shivering is one of its significant symptom.

  28. “Roberts believes he contracted the disease while on vacation in Indonesia, spending two weeks there before returning early August. Though he doesn’t remember being bitten”

    Gee, visiting Indonesia and getting bitten by a mosquito yet not noticing it – what are the odds?

  29. Maybe he shivered at the unmitigated BS he’s spewed.

  30. I suspect he was warned he should take the malaria prevention pills, but chose not to. This is a warning to others traveling to malaria areas to take the pills.

  31. Rich jerk goes to Indonesia on vacation, but it’s too stupid to take preventative anti-malaria medication or get vaccinated. 🤦‍♂️

  32. *Fox Entertainment

    Because no reasonable person would interpret their programming as news.

  33. Conservatives rejoice, that’s the one time hydroxychloroquine is the actual answer.

  34. When you’re part of the swamp malaria is part of the job.

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