Posted on 04/18/2020 5:11:25 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A controversial drug heralded by some as a coronavirus cure comes with symptoms of its own, Rita Wilson says.
The actress, 63, says she was given chloroquine after she and husband Tom Hanks tested positive for COVID-19 while in Australia last month. The malaria treatment may or may not have helped her beat the virus, but it certainly gave her “extreme side effects,” she tells Gayle King on Tuesday’s “CBS This Morning.”
After getting the chloroquine, Wilson became “completely nauseous” and experienced vertigo and weakened muscles, she warns.
“We have to be very considerate about this drug,” she says. “We don’t know if it’s safe in this case.”
Despite thousands of seriously ill coronavirus patients being treated with a newer version of the drug called hydroxychloroquine, federal agencies stockpiling it and individuals claiming the drug saved them from the coronavirus, significant testing is still required before it can be deemed safe.
Groups of doctors have called it the most effective coronavirus treatment, but in some cases, it may treat the disease only to prove independently lethal: Researchers called off a small Brazilian study of the drug on Monday after participants experienced potentially fatal heart complications.
Wilson and Hanks were among the first Hollywood elites to announce they’d tested positive for the coronavirus, and have since recovered and returned home to the US.
Hanks, 63, appeared on a remote version of “Saturday Night Live” from his home this month.
Wilson’s other coronavirus symptoms included being “very tired, extremely achy, uncomfortable, didn’t want to be touched.” She says she also suffered from the loss of her senses of taste and smell, getting the chills and a 102-degree fever. Hanks did not experience the loss of taste and smell or the high fever, she tells King.
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Then they must be the only ones...
But not the side effect of death?
Tom Hank’s started shaking.
odd if their docs gave them that med instead of the hydro- one which is known to have less side effects
maybe their medical condition required the med with the side effects? but i don’t really know/ see why
Those seem to be the side effects of the virus, not the drugs. Anosmia is a common symptom, even when no other symptoms are present.
Fake news from lying lefties!
Yep, she’s alive and complaining. Liberal rats are never happy.
Probably be better just to let any celebrity who comes down with the virus just die painfully but dramatically on live TV. That would show Trump who’s boss!
The fact that it was not the Hydroxychloroquine combo will be lost and damn it people are going to die rather than have Trump be right. The father of lies is pleased.
Translation: I took it and recovered, but you little people shouldn’t try this.
So, what symptoms of Covid-19 did they exhibit if those are all “side effects” of chloroquine?
And it would not be anecdotal.
HCQ replaced CQ because it has fewer side effects
Yet they are BOTH alive and well, so I guess the drug worked after all..and its supposed to be mixed with zpack and zinc
Id rather be nauseated than dead
What I take from this story is that both are alive. Hanks has diabetes, 63 y.o. Rita is well into her sixties and carries some extra weight. I hope they are thankful to be alive The are both very liberal, so I put nothing by them sending out some subtle doom and gloom about this drug especially since PDT gave it some praise.
She is alive to bitch about it so she should say thank you.
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