Not Just Jet Lag
Wilson and Hanks began experiencing2019冠状病毒病症状三月，威尔逊在澳大利亚悉尼歌剧院进行。“第二天，我坐在悉尼港周围的海港游轮，这是华丽的，我开始感到有点冷静。而且我想，好吧，这是正常的，我仍然通过Jet Lag，我整天都在元素中，“威尔逊说。
But the next morning she woke up feeling achy with a headache. A day later, her symptoms increased to chills and a fever, as did Hanks’s.
“That’s when the doctors came and said, we have to test you for COVID-19,” she says. “I really didn’t think we had it. I thought we just had a cold at that point, but the test came back positive, and they said they were going to need to hospitalize us, because our fevers had increased.”
威尔逊和汉克斯抵达医院后，他们的症状恶化。“
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“我从来没有ver,EverBeThat Sick’
在从医院释放后，威尔逊经历了“教科书”案件的Covid-19 - 而且事情开始变得可怕。“我读到了第5天和第8天之间，它可以真正踢进去，然后轮到一些人，这就是发生的事情，这正是发生了什么，”她说。
On top of a fever, every symptom become much more severe, including a “massive” headache that wouldn’t go away, along with nausea,胃肠道问题, vertigo, and a new symptom that hadn’t been clearly identified back in March: loss of taste and smell.
“我不停地对医生说,其他任何人talked about to you about this, and he said no, but about a week later people were talking about it and saying that they lost that,” says Wilson.
“我从来没有，永远都没有，”她强调。“这不是我再次重复的东西。”
Wilson estimates she was ill with COVID-19 for about two weeks, followed by a week of recovery when she was finally able to “get her wits” about her.
在那个时候，她说她发现听听音乐“令人难以置信的安慰和分散注意力”。
“我看不到屏幕或看电视，我不能那种集中。我可以闭上眼睛听音乐，这是非常有帮助的，“她说。她把一个戏剧列表放在一起丽塔威尔逊的隔离区that’s available on Spotify.
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它可能发生在任何人身上
威尔逊和汉克斯决定与他们的Covid-19战斗一起去，让人们知道这种疾病会发生在任何人身上。
“We all have had those moments in life where you hear of something happening to somebody and you think, ‘Oh my gosh, I can’t believe it,’ but it’s somebody you know — it’s notyou，“威尔逊说。
“我有breast cancerfive years ago, and I realized that I was the one out of eight women who gets breast cancer. Once you go through something like that you realize that you can also get COVID-19, you can get the flu, you can get all sorts of things. That’s just life; you can’t control that.”
Wilson recalls moments during her COVID-19 illness when she was afraid for her life. “I really did not know if it was going to take that turn where it got into your lungs; I was really worried about that because everything I knew about that was very scary,” she says.
“在医院里有人在呼吸机和氧气中的情况相当严重。我没有理所当然地认为我们不会到达那里。“
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‘You Can’t Take Any Chances’
激发威尔逊在比赛中加入ANA的一部分是200万次活动是在医院照顾她的“惊人的护士”。“我们不能拥有我们的医疗保健系统，我们的护士不堪重负他们的方式，当Covid-19击中时，”她说。
“COVID-19 isn’t going anywhere, and we’re entering into flu season,” Wilson says. By getting the flu shot, we can all help reduce the potential impact of a “twindemic,” she says.
“这对我来说感觉像是聪明的事情，”威尔逊补充道。“我们看到这么多人死于Covid-19，我们知道人们每年都会死于流感 - 你不能接受任何机会。”
Wilson recalls one Christmas when she, along with many members of her family, had the flu. “We missed out on all sorts of family gatherings and get-togethers and to me, that’s everything that I want to be doing. I don’t want to ever have to miss those things again,” she says.
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Five Things to Know About Getting a Flu Shot
Misconceptions, confusion, and fears about the flu vaccine are rampant. Here, Dr. Grant of the ANA shares some basic, empowering facts.
1. Getting vaccinated helps your body fight off the flu virus.
Put simply, the flu shot works by helping your immune system develop protective antibodies, explains Grant. “If you come in contact with someone who has the flu or who has the potential to transmit the flu to you, your body already recognizes it and says, ‘Hey, that’s an enemy, so to speak, and let’s start working to get this guy out of here,” he says.
几乎每个人都应该得到流感疫苗。
据授予，平均每年27,000人死于美国的流感。应该得到流感疫苗的人是那些处于最高风险的人，包括患有患有慢性疾病的人，如糖尿病,心脏病， 和呼吸系统, he says. “In many cases, these are the same groups of people who would be at risk for complications of COVID-19.”
There are certain groups who shouldn’t get the flu shot, and those people usually know who they are, says Grant. With very few exceptions, the疾病预防控制中心recommends everyone over 6 months old get a flu shot. If you think you may be allergic to eggs or any other ingredients in the flu shot, talk with your healthcare provider.
3. The best time to get a flu shot is early fall.
格兰特说，它永远不会太晚，但现在最好的时间是正确的。“9月中旬至10月份真的是最佳的时期，”他说，部分是因为免疫系统生产抗体需要几个星期。
Most years, it wouldn’t really matterwhere you got your flu shot, but the pandemic has changed that, says Grant. It may be easiest and fastest to go to your local pharmacy, though your doctor’s office would still be fine provided you call ahead.
“Most pharmacies are developing these health or mini-clinics that have space that is walled off from the rest of the customers who may be there,” he says. Social distancing and masks are required while you are inside the pharmacy, adds Grant.
4. The flu shot is safe, and it can’t make you sick.
“It is very, very safe,” says Grant. “Obviously, the CDC works to figure out which strains of the flu are going to be the most prevalent each year and includes those strains in the shot,” he says.
Vaccines undergo a rigorous review of laboratory and clinical data to make sure that they are safe, effective, and pure, according to theU.S. Food and Drug Administration, the agency that is in charge of overseeing the flu shot.
Contrary to a belief widely circulated on social media, the flu vaccine won’t give you COVID-19, says Grant. “The flu and COVID-19 are two distinctly different illnesses. The flu cannot give you COVID-19 and COVID-19 cannot give you the flu,” he says.
“但是，你可以同时拥有它们，这就是为什么我们强调至少2亿美国人获得流感疫苗的目标 - 以降低一个人获得两种疾病的风险，”格兰特说。
Sometimes individuals may get a flu shot and then five or six days later feel like they got the flu as a result of getting the flu shot, but that’s not the case, says Grant. “You’ve either been exposed to someone who has the flu or it’s your body building up the antibodies,” he explains.
5. The flu shot can help you have a less severe case of the flu.
The flu shot isn’t 100 percent effective, but even if you do get the flu after being vaccinated, the shot still offers some protection, says Grant. “Your body begins to recognize the invader and the antibodies will help you fight off the flu so you will get a milder form,” he says.
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