![]() “Extreme nausea, vertigo, my muscles felt like wet noodles, so I couldn’t really stand,” she says. Her temperature did come down, but the side-effects of the drug were “incredibly harsh”. To try to bring her fever down, doctors gave her chloroquine – “not hydroxychloroquine,” she stresses, referring to the unproven treatment President Trump has been promoting. I lost my sense of taste and smell, had stomach issues and shivering like you wouldn’t believe. Their symptoms were severe enough for them to be hospitalised: “We both had a high fever and were extremely achey. Then on the plane to Australia, I was like Lady Macbeth – I couldn’t clean everything enough! The flight attendants were like: ‘What is with this lady?’ I had wipes, sanitiser, I wiped down everything.” But I was already doing no handshakes, no hugging, trying to take my own measures. Wilson, in particular, had tried to be hyper-vigilant: “It was early March, so people weren’t social distancing yet. Doctors told them that they were probably exposed to the virus by the same person at the same time, but no one else they know has tested positive and it’s still a mystery as to how they caught it. Wilson and Hanks first developed symptoms on 9 March, and were tested the following day. She has regained enough of her strength to just about suppress her weariness with the reference: “Oh, that’s a good idea, for sure!” she says with only the faintest hint of rolled eyes. ![]() Wilson has been acting since she was 14, but her most famous scene is probably in Sleepless in Seattle, where her character gushes about the Cary Grant/Deborah Kerr 1957 film. “Like An Affair to Remember?” I can’t resist asking. Thankfully for Hanks and Wilson, but also the morale of mankind, they are now fully recovered from coronavirus and back home in Los Angeles, where they are “staying inside and watching a lot of old movies,” Wilson tells me on the phone. Photograph: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Wilson and Hanks at the Oscars in February. Hanks and Wilson occupy a near unique sweet spot of seeming both normal and gobstoppingly famous, making their diagnoses seem all too relatable and totally bizarre. “How dare coronavirus hurt my father!” was the general online reaction, reflecting Hanks’s longstanding status as the United States’ parental figure. And whereas other celebrity diagnoses have prompted debate about why certain people have access to tests while the masses don’t, the news about Hanks and Wilson, both 63, sparked only anxiety on their behalf. Plenty of famous people have since been diagnosed with coronavirus, from Idris Elba to Placido Domingo, yet only Hanks and Wilson made newspaper front pages. Like prison rules: ‘If I can get Hanks, I can get to anyone.’” ![]() (Hanks, truly cast against type, is playing the notorious bully, Colonel Tom Parker.) On The Daily Show, Trevor Noah said: “It’s almost like coronavirus chose Tom Hanks just to send a message to the rest of us. That was when Tom Hanks announced on Instagram that he and his wife, the actor and singer Rita Wilson, a couple who are universally agreed to be Two of the Nicest Celebrities in the World, had tested positive for the virus in Australia, where Hanks had been shooting Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis biopic. But for many members of the public, a precise date can be put on when the truth properly struck home: 13 March. Precisely when political leaders of certain countries grasped how much of a threat coronavirus really would be is a debatable issue.
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