Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain was hospitalized on Wednesday after testing positive for the CCP virus.
\nA statement on his Twitter account on Thursday \u2026<\/b>
\nFormer Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain was hospitalized on Wednesday after testing positive for the CCP virus.
A statement on his Twitter account on Thursday said that Cain was informed he had tested positive for COVID-19 and developed \u201csymptoms serious enough that he required hospitalization\u201d by Wednesday.
COVID-19 is the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, the novel coronavirus that emerged from Wuhan, China, in late 2019.
Cain did not need a respirator and by Thursday, he was \u201cawake and alert\u201d and \u201cresting comfortably in an Atlanta-area hospital,\u201d the statement continues.
Cain had attended President Donald Trump\u2019s campaign rally on June 20 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. According to a photograph taken on the day, Cain was seated next to several people. None of the group, including Cain, were wearing a face mask.
The statement on Twitter announcing Cain\u2019s positive COVID-19 test noted that there is \u201cno way of knowing for sure how or where Mr. Cain contracted the coronavirus.\u201d
It also noted that Cain is \u201ca fighter who has beaten Stage 4 cancer.\u201d
\u201cWith God\u2019s help, we are confident he will make a quick and complete recovery, and will soon resume hosting The Herman Cain show at HermanCain.com, and Herman Cain\u2019s America on NewsmaxTV,\u201d the statement concluded.
According to the Trump campaign, Cain did not meet with the president at the rally.
\u201cI realize people will speculate about the Tulsa rally, but Herman did a lot of traveling the past week, including to Arizona where cases are spiking,\u201d Dan Calabrese, editor of HermanCain.com, wrote on the website. \u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s any way to trace this to the one specific contact that caused him to be infected. We\u2019ll never know.\u201d
In 2006, Cain had received a diagnosis of stage-four colon cancer. By 2011, Cain said he was free of the cancer and crediting his recovery to God.
Cain,74, a former pizza company executive, ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. He was best known for his tax proposal called the \u201c9-9-9 plan,\u201d which proposed a 9 percent income tax, a 9 percent federal sales tax, and a 9 percent business transaction tax.
Cain has been an outspoken backer of Trump, and was named by the Trump campaign as a co-chair of Black Voices for Trump.<\/p>\n