Now that he’s recovered from coronavirus, Tom Hanks says his blood can be used to assist develop a vaccine.
The Oscar-winning actor, 63, revealed final week that he and his spouse, singer Rita Wilson, have volunteered to present their blood and plasma to COVID-19 analysis.
“We now have not solely been approached, we've got stated, ‘Would you like our blood? Can we give plasma?’ And, in truth, we can be giving it now to the locations that hope to work on what I want to name the Hank-ccine,” Hanks stated on NPR’s podcast “Wait Wait…Don’t Inform Me!”
Hanks stated the couple just lately discovered that that they had antibodies from their battle with the damaging bug final month in Australia.
“A whole lot of the questions [are] what can we do now? Is there one thing we are able to do? And, in truth, we simply discovered that we do carry the antibodies,” Hanks stated.
The actor stated in one other interview final week that the couple nonetheless doesn’t understand how they contracted coronavirus whereas down underneath, the place he was filming Baz Luhrmann’s forthcoming Elvis Presley biopic.
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