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Rita Wilsonis opening up about her recovery from the novelcoronavirus.
The 64-year-old actress and singer — who wasdiagnosed with COVID-19alongside husbandTom Hankslast March — spoke about her experience with the respiratory illness during her appearance onMonday’s episode ofThe Ellen DeGeneres Show, revealing that she no longer tests positive for coronavirus antibodies.
“You kind of feel superhero-like and superhuman because you have the antibodies and you feel like you can go places and do things, except nobody else can go anywhere and do anything,” Wilson joked to hostEllen DeGeneres, whotested positive for COVID-19 in Decemberand hassince recovered.
When DeGeneres, 63, mentioned that she still has to wait to test for COVID-19 antibodies, which indicates that someone has been exposed to the virus, Wilson replied, “Sadly, I don’t have the antibodies anymore.”
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“I just tested two weeks ago and I don’t have the antibodies anymore,” she said. “But it’s okay, I have a mask and I have hand sanitizer, so I’m back like everyone else.”
Testing positive for COVID-19 antibodies indicates that a person has been exposed to the virus through infection or vaccination, according theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention. Though COVID-19 antibodies can help off infections and protect those with them from getting the disease again, the CDC has warned that antibody tests currently available may not be accurate and should not be used to determine if someone is immune to coronavirus.
The star said she hopes soon things can start to go back to normal.
“We talked when you had it. It’s horrible to have it,” she continued. “Hopefully, now the vaccine is going to be out there and people can get it, and we can get back to normal life soon.”
Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson.MIKE GARDNER/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images
Wilson firstspoke about her experience with COVID-19in April, a month after revealing that she and Hanks, 64, tested positive for the virus while working in Australia.
“I was very tired,” she recalled toCBS This Morning. “I felt extremely achy. Uncomfortable, didn’t want to be touched. And then the fever started. Chills like I’ve never had before. Looking back, I also realized that I was losing my sense of taste and smell, which I didn’t realize at the time.”
“I was completely nauseous and I had vertigo,” Wilson remembered. “I could not walk and my muscles felt very weak.”
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“A photo of getting tested for antibodies in preparation of donating plasma. Thank you Dr. Anne Rimoin @annierimoin at UCLA for the study you’re working on to help patients heal from COVID-19,” Wilsonwrote in an April 29 Instagram post.
On Twitter, Hanks shared a photo a bag of plasma and a bag of blood that he donated.
“Here’s last week’s bag of plasma. Such a bag! After the paperwork, it’s as easy as taking a nap,” Hankstweeted. “Thanks @arimoin and UCLA. Hanx.”
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