"We will be giving it now to the places that hope to work on what I would like to call the Hank-ccine" Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson will be donating their blood to help develop a vaccine for coronavirus.
The couple contracted COVID-19 last month while on set for Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming Elvis Presley in Australia. They have since made a full recovery in their home in Los Angeles.
Hanks spoke on the NPR podcast Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! about their upcoming participation. “We just found out that we do carry the antibodies,” he began. “We have not only been approached; we have said, do you want our blood?
Can we give plasma? And, in fact, we will be giving it now to the places that hope to work on what I would like to call the Hank-ccine.” Hanks