Rita Wilson opens up on coronavirus ordeal and warns of treatment side effects

 

Tom Hanks, left, and Rita Wilson attend the 42nd Annual Kennedy Center Honors at The Kennedy Center on Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019, in Washington. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP)

 

Actress Rita Wilson has opened up on her coronavirus ordeal and warned of the "extreme" side effects she suffered from medicine used to treat the illness.

 

Wilson and her husband Tom Hanks were the first high-profile celebrities to publicly state they had tested positive for Covid-19, announcing the news via an Instagram post on March 12.

 

The couple were in Australia, where Hanks was working on an Elvis Presley biopic. They have both since made a full recovery.

 

In her first interview since being diagnosed, Wilson, 63, spoke to The Talk with Gayle King and detailed her symptoms.

 

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"I felt extremely achy, uncomfortable, didn't want to be touched, and then the fever started," Wilson said, adding she suffered from "chills like I never had before." 

 

She also revealed she had been given the drug chloroquine, which is usually used to prevent and treat malaria and is being studied as a possible Covid-19 treatment.

 

However, Wilson is not sure what impact it had on her. She said: "I can only tell you that I don't know if the drug worked or if it was just time for my fever to break, but my fever did break."

 

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And Wilson warned the drug had "extreme side effects". She felt "completely nauseous" and could not walk. "My muscles felt very weak," she said.

 

How does she know it was the Malaria Meds and not the virus? 

 

 

She was right:

actually Chloroquine cause muscles weakening and could even cause heart failure. That's one of the reasons that patients must be treated by chloroquine at hospitals while staying at hospitals.