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Glad you seem to be doing OK, Tom, but apparently there’s a major problem with your latest update.
Last week, actor Tom Hanks put a famous face to the coronavirus pandemic when he announced both he and his wife, Rita Wilson, tested positive while on a shoot in Australia for an upcoming Elvis Presley biopic. He followed with this update a day later.
In the days that followed, the internet, while pushing for more, hadn’t heard from him.
Until now:
While his millions of fans were happy to hear a lighthearted update from Hanks, many of them had a major problem with the substance of the post: Seriously, what’s up with all that Vegemite?
The salty topic quickly began trending on Twitter TWTR, +9.37% :
Meanwhile, on a more serious note, Baz Luhrmann, the Australian-born director of the biopic, offered some further insight as to how the rest of the crew is dealing with the virus on location:
As of Sunday morning, at least 2,815 people have tested positive for coronavirus in the U.S, according to a New York Times database, and at least 59 patients with the virus have died.
