---
title: "Good News: Tom Hanks Is Feeling Better After Catching Coronavirus"
description: "Good news for a tired world: Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, both of whom tested positive for the coronavirus, are now on the mend."
date: "2020-03-23"
modified: "2020-03-23"
authors:
  - name: "Jon Christian"
    job_title: "Executive Editor"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jonc"
url: "https://futurism.com/neoscope/good-news-tom-hanks-feeling-better-coronavirus"
categories:
  - "Developments"
  - "Health & Medicine"
  - "Medical"
  - "Pathogens"
  - "Viruses"
tags:
  - "coronavirus"
  - "covid19"
  - "health"
  - "tom hanks"
---

# Good News: Tom Hanks Is Feeling Better After Catching Coronavirus

![Good news for a tired world: Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, both of whom tested positive for the coronavirus, are now on the mend.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/good-news-tom-hanks-feeling-better-coronavirus.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: 20th Century Studios\</em\>*

For many people, the coronavirus pandemic didn't quite hit home until beloved actor Tom Hanks [tested positive](<https://futurism.com/neoscope/tom-hanks-nba-coronavirus>).

Now, the Academy Awards-winning Hanks is back with some good news for a tired world: He and wife Rita Wilson, another accomplished actor who also caught the bug, are both on the mend.

"Two weeks after our first symptoms and we feel better," Hanks [tweeted on Sunday](<https://twitter.com/tomhanks/status/1241919151829954566>).

That's heartening news for the Hanks/Wilson household, but it's also a reminder that the vast majority of people who catch the coronavirus make it through and feel much better after a few weeks.

Hanks — "Cast Away" and "Forrest Gump" actor, published author, NPR quiz show [guest-host](<https://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/509378822>) — also used his platform to sing the praises of sheltering in place, which means [avoiding unnecessary contact with others](<https://www.wired.com/story/whats-shelter-place-order-whos-affected/>) in a bid to avoid spreading the coronavirus.

It's inevitable that COVID-19 will continue to spread at some rate, at least for a while, but the more the public can work together to slow it down, the less strain it will put on the health care system.

"Going to take awhile, but if we take care of each other, help where we can, and give up some comforts... this, too, shall pass," Hanks wrote. "We can figure this out."

## Author
I'm responsible for editing, assigning, and scouting at Futurism, as well as occasionally writing for the site. That work involves keeping an eye on a wide range of narratives and issues, but over the past few years I've become increasingly interested in how AI is shaping the future of media, the web, and information itself. My day-to-day often involves collaborating on reporting and commentary projects bylined by my colleagues, but I try to find time to do my own reporting as well; stories I've broken for Futurism have been cited by publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, Wired, Ars Technica, New York Magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review, Bloomberg, and more. I grew up in Southern Vermont and attended Vanderbilt University. Prior to Futurism, I contributed to outlets including the Boston Globe, Vice, Wired, Slate, the Atlantic, the Outline, Ars Technica and more, and did stints in farming and food service. I currently live in Brooklyn, New York, and in my free time I enjoy pinball, word games, cycling, running, and music production.

### Author social links  
[Bluesky](<https://bsky.app/profile/jonchristian.net>)