CNN’s Quest discloses he has coronavirus

Richard Quest, host of CNN’s “Quest Means Business” and economics reporter for the network, said that he tested positive for coronavirus over the weekend.

Ted Johnson of Deadline Hollywood reports, “‘I am thankful and grateful that I don’t seem to have any of the horrific symptoms of the others,’ Quest told viewers Monday. ‘I just have a nasty cough which, thankfully tonight because of our excellent technical staff, you haven’t heard me too much spluttering away.’

“He said that he will continue to work but will ‘take it easy if it all gets too much.

“‘I feel fine. I feel good,’ said Quest, who hosts his show from New York. ‘And there are important things that you and I need to talk about overnight. such as negative oil and the way the markets are going down and what still needs to be done.'”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.