Rita Wilson recently recovered from COVID-19 with hubby Tom Hanks. She's not sure if her chloroquine medication was worth the 'extreme' side effects.
By video, the actress-singer told CBS’ Gayle King that her fever had gone up to nearly 102 degrees, and she realized in hindsight that her senses of taste and smell had been on their way out. Wilson’s initial body aches ushered in a fever with chills like she’d “never had before.”
Hanks, meanwhile, had a less severe case than she did, but still took the same length of time to recover. They’re both back in Los Angeles, andThe couple still aren’t sure where they picked up the bug, Wilson said. They had gone to Australia so Hanks could work on a movie. Hanks and Wilson were told they were both exposed to the coronavirus at the same time, she said. “We don’t know when that could have been or where.” However, she added, nobody in their family or on their close work team has tested positive.
Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, which are typically used against malaria and lupus, have gotten a lot of hype in recent weeks after a review said it seemed they could limit replication of the coronavirus in laboratory dishes, and President Trump said he felt good about their effectiveness. “That’s all it is, just a feeling,” Trump said in mid-March.
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