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Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson are donating their blood to medical researchers in the race for a coronavirus cure after successfully winning their battle with COVID-19.<\/p>\n
The actors were among the first high-profile celebrities to go public with their health crisis last month (Mar20), after falling ill while in Australia preparing to shoot Hanks’ new Elvis Presley film.<\/p>\n
They have since made a full recovery and are back home in Los Angeles, and Wilson recently revealed they had enrolled in a medical study to determine if their antibodies would be useful for scientists working on developing a vaccine.<\/p>\n
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Now Hanks explains they have been approved to continue donating blood – and if experts are successful, the Forrest Gump star would love for the vaccine to be named after him.<\/p>\n
“We just found out that we do carry the antibodies,” the 63-year-old told National Public Radio’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! podcast.<\/p>\n
“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 (sic).”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson are donating their blood to medical researchers in the race for a coronavirus cure after successfully winning their battle with COVID-19. The actors were among the first high-profile celebrities to go public with their health crisis last month (Mar20), after falling ill while in Australia preparing to shoot Hanks’ …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":57048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11185,59037],"tags":[60089],"yoast_head":"\n