LOS ANGELES -- Actor Mel Gibson has disclosed he spent a week in a Los Angeles-area hospital in April after testing positive for the coronavirus.
The 64-year-old actor had kept his hospitalization private until now. He says he was treated with the drug remdesivir.
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Gibson has tested negative several times since leaving the hospital and has tested positive for antibodies to the virus.
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Gibson is among many public figures in entertainment, sports and other high-profile fields to disclose positive diagnoses of COVID-19, including Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson, Idris Elba and singer P!nk.