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"I could not have been more conservative," Wilson said, discussing how she contracted COVID-19."I had two performances in Australia — one in Brisbane and one at the Sydney Opera House. I flew on the plane wearing practically a hazmat suit, and I brought my own wipes, gloves and hand sanitizer.
I wiped down everything like it was going out of business. I didn't touch a thing!" When Wilson and Hanks arrived in Australia, she says she rehearsed with her band and didn't hug anybody. "We were all talking about social distancing. I continued to wipe down everything everywhere we went. I was like Lady Macbeth, 'out, out, damn spot!'" she quipped."We were trying our best to do what we knew with the information at that time. Once in a while, somebody would come within your social distancing, six-feet sphere. But that being said, I really don't know where I got it." In an Instagram post on March 12, 2020, Tom Hanks announced that he and his wife, Rita Wilson, had COVID-19 and were in isolation."Everything about it was like the extreme of whatever it was," she explained."So if you had chills, they were extreme chills. If you had a fever, it was a high fever. If you had a headache, it was like a binding vice around your head that was relentless. It's not like you could take an aspirin and it would go away. Your exhaustion was worse than just being tired with a cold."hospitalized"There was a concern, as the fever was escalating. But I stayed extremely hydrated," Wilson explained."I don't know if that had anything to do with my recovery, if that helped or not. It was when I got back from the hospital that it actually became worse. I became more chilled, still had a high fever, extreme nausea, vertigo, vomiting. It was very uncomfortable.""It's not like you can say, 'oh, it moved into this.' It's basically incapacitating; you can't really do anything, you can't eat anything, you can't talk to anyone. You can't pick up a phone and say to someone, 'I'm okay' or 'I need water.' Basically, because you are at home and can't infect anybody else, you are on your own. There's not anyone who can really help. Fortunately, we [she and Hanks] had each other, so we could at least be there for each other.""I was asking the doctor about that, if anyone else had experienced that loss. But at that point, in early March, no one really knew about that. He said he hadn't heard anything, but then about a week later, he said, 'Oh, by the way, we are starting to get a lot of reports about that.' That lasted for about two months, and it didn't come back right away," she said. Wilson's sense of taste and smell returned sporadically."Sometimes I would have it in the morning, and I wouldn't have it for the rest of the day. Eventually, it came back. I am so thankful."actress never lost her sense of humor."One would think if you lost your sense of taste and smell, that you would not eat. No! 'It's going to come back right when I am in the middle of this bite!' But it didn't," she said with a laugh. "After two weeks, your appetite starts to come back, and you feel like you are coming out of a brain fog," Wilson said. The third week is really about exhaustion; you are just so tired."Soon after recovering, Wilson was creating music again."While sheltering at home, I was able to stay creative and write music with my songwriting friends. That's really been great!"
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