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Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks were two of the first Hollywood stars to reveal publicly that they had tested positive for the coronavirus, sharing their diagnosis over a month ago.

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00:00Looking back I also realized that I was losing my sense of taste and smell which I didn't realize

00:05it at the time. Rita Wilson is opening up about her recovery from COVID-19 and the side effects

00:11of using chloroquine. Wilson spoke to CBS This Morning host Gail King on Tuesday's edition of

00:15The Morning Show speaking about her and husband Tom Hanks' experience with the virus and how she's

00:20trying to help in the fight against the global pandemic. First, Wilson shared her symptoms after

00:24coming down with the disease. I felt extremely achy, uncomfortable, didn't want to be touched

00:31and then the fever started. Wilson explained that her fever reached 102 degrees by day nine

00:36and had lost her sense of taste and smell. However, Hanks, she said, didn't have as high of a fever

00:41and didn't lose his sense of taste and smell. Wilson added that she was given the controversial

00:46drug chloroquine which has been praised by President Trump and others as a somewhat

00:50effective treatment against the virus but medical experts have cautioned that more research still

00:55needs to be done. Wilson said she was not sure if it worked or if it was just time for her fever to

00:59break as that's what happened when she was given the drug. Still, she suffered extreme side effects

01:03including being completely nauseous and having vertigo and her muscles becoming very weak.

01:08I think people have to be very considerate about that drug. We don't really know if it's helpful in

01:15this case. As for how she and Hanks contracted the virus, Wilson said they were told it was

01:20from somebody that they were both exposed to at the same time but they don't know where or when

01:24that happened. But all I can say is all of our close contacts, family, on our work team,

01:31no one has tested positive. Wilson said she and Hanks were told that they are now immune

01:35and have donated blood as part of a study to see if their antibodies can be helpful in developing a

01:39vaccine. Wilson also opened up about the video she made of her rapping Naughty by Nature's Hip Hop Hooray

01:45which became popular online explaining that she once had to learn it for a role in the movie Boy

01:49Genius and wanted to try performing it as a brain exercise.

01:53I thought, well maybe if I just post this it could be something fun and show people that

01:58we're okay. After her interview with King, the CBS anchor noted that Wilson reassured her

02:02that she and Hanks feel completely normal now. For more on this story, head to THR.com.

02:07For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Neha Joy.

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