A statement on his Twitter account on Thursday said that Cain was informed he had tested positive for COVID-19 and developed “symptoms serious enough that he required hospitalization” 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 “awake and alert” and “resting comfortably in an Atlanta-area hospital,” the statement continues.
The statement on Twitter announcing Cain’s positive COVID-19 test noted that there is “no way of knowing for sure how or where Mr. Cain contracted the coronavirus.”
It also noted that Cain is “a fighter who has beaten Stage 4 cancer.”
“With God’s 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’s America on NewsmaxTV,” the statement concluded.
According to the Trump campaign, Cain did not meet with the president at the rally.
Dan Calabrese, editor of HermanCain.com, wrote on the website: “I 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.
“I don’t think there’s any way to trace this to the one specific contact that caused him to be infected. We’ll never know.”
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 “9-9-9 plan,” 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.
