'Looking back, I also realized that I was losing my sense of taste and smell, which I didn't realize at the time,' Rita Wilson said
for the deadly respiratory illness in Australia, where Hanks was shooting a film. They have since returned to Los Angeles after self-quarantining in Australia for two weeks.You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications.
Wilson, who is now recovering, recalled to King that she had unknowingly been showing symptoms of COVID-19 when she first felt ill. “I was very tired,” Wilson said. “I felt extremely achy. Uncomfortable, didn’t want to be touched. And then the fever started. Chills like I’ve never had before. Looking back, I also realized that I was losing my sense of taste and smell, which I didn’t realize at the time.”
Wilson said that her fever “got close to about 102 by day nine.” This led doctors to give Wilson chloroquine, a Immunosuppressive drug that is typically used to treat malaria, according to“I know people have been talking this drug, but i can only tell you that I don’t know if the drug worked or it was just time for the fever to break,” Wilson said.
“My fever did break, but the chloroquine had such extreme side affects,” she said. “I was completely nauseous and I had vertigo. I could not walk and my muscles felt very weak. I think people have to be very considerate about that drug. We don’t know if it’s helpful in this case.”
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