[Independent] Rita Wilson, the actress married to Tom Hanks who was diagnosed with Covid-19 along with her husband in March, has described "extreme" side effects she suffered due to a controversial drug in a new interview.Oh no, Rita! We feel terrible for you! How bad was it? Was the cure worse than the disease?
The drug, touted by some — including Donald Trump in multiple White House press briefings — as a potential coronavirus treatment, is called hydrochloroquine, and is typically used in malaria cases. It has not yet been proven to treat Covid-19, though several anecdotal reports claim patients have recovered from the novel virus after using the antimalarial treatment.
Surely, Rita, given your extreme experience, and the fact that others might have extreme side effects maybe 10% of the time they are put on this regimen for a few days, we should probably have waited until all the lengthy studies of these safe drugs have been completed and
The actress said she could not be sure whether the drug helped her or not — though it caused "extreme side effects" that continued even as her body temperature was declining.
And if you had it all to do over again, I'm sure you would never take that evil drug ever again!
"I know people have been talking about this drug ... but I can only tell you that I don’t know if the drug worked or if it was just time for the fever to break", Ms Wilson told CBS’ Gayle King in an interview that aired on Tuesday morning.
You mean the fever that can lead to death? That fever?
"My fever did break, but the chloroquine had such extreme side effects," She said. "I was completely nauseous, and I had vertigo. I could not walk, and my muscles felt very weak."
Err, you mean how I usually feel before I have to get up and go to work? That kind of extreme? Poor baby.
"I think people have to be very considerate about that drug," she added. "We don’t really know if it’s helpful in this case."
You mean the case where you didn't know if you were going to die or not? Well, next time why don't you wait until you know the answer, then take it if you need to.
Mr Hanks did not experience as severe of symptoms, according to Ms Wilson. He was the guest of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, and filmed the show’s opening monologue from the couple’s home in California. They returned to Los Angeles after recovering from the coronavirus at a hospital in Australia, where they were visiting for work.
Did Mr. Hanks symptoms involve a lot of eye-rolling every time he heard his wife talk?
Ms Wilson told CBS she felt "very tired, extremely achy, uncomfortable, didn’t want to be touched" after contracting the disease in March.
Surely the drug's fault, therefore Trump's. And diligently respun and reported by some reporter with TDS.
Now that the couple has recovered from the virus, they have remained in self-isolation and donated their blood for an antibodies study as health officials race to develop a vaccine.
A real cure! A cure that will take lots of time and cost billions upon billions of dollars! A cure that people will have to come back for every year after the vaccine wears off! (That cure?)
Ms Wilson added that she and Mr Hanks feel "completely normal" and no longer have any remaining symptoms, according to Ms King.
Apparently HCQ cures TDS in some, but not in others. If only some scientists could figure out what the correlations are.
There are nearly 550,000 confirmed Covid-19 cases in the US, and at least 21,662 people have died nationwide due to the novel virus. Health officials have warned those figures are likely higher due to significant issues the country faced in distributing testing kits.
And nothing to do with the fact that we had to develop accurate tests and mass produce them while fighting a bunch of liberals who were doing their best to trash talk potential treatments and leverage events into pushing the US towards their version of Utopia.
Ms Wilson and Mr Hanks were believed to have contracted the virus in the US or while travelling to Australia
where 10% of the cases are terminal
before recovering and returning home.
And fortunately for Rita, Darwin doesn't seem to care if you are grateful or not.