Tom Hanks has been quite popular amid the COVID-19 pandemic. After testing positive and recovering later from the virus, Hanks together with his wife Rita Wilson are offering their blood to help develop a vaccine for coronavirus.
Hanks disclosed on NPR’s podcast of their new role to help curb the virus, “A lot of the questions [are] what do we do now? Is there something we can do? And, in fact, we just found out that we do carry the antibodies. We have not only been approached, we have said, ‘Do you want our blood? Can we give plasma?’”
Hanks who doubles as an Academy Award winning actor and a Golden Globes Cecil B. DeMile award recipient (2020) wasting not much time already has a name for the vaccine which will be made out of his blood, “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,” he said.
Both Hanks and Wilson tested posted to the virus early March while in Australia, where Hanks was filming the Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Presley biopic. The couple stayed quarantined in the country before returning to their Los Angeles home late March after testing negative.
Just last week, Hanks detailed how Wilson’s battle against the virus was a severe case than his during their days of quarantine, “Rita went through a tougher time than I did. She had a much higher fever. She had lost her sense of taste and sense of smell. She got absolutely no joy from food for a better part of three weeks.”
Hanks however reassures that they are both now in good shape and feeling ‘just fine’ and ‘dandy’.
By: Larry Adams
