Tom Hanks, wife Rita Wilson volunteer blood for COVID-19 vaccine research
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Tom Hanks, married woman Rita Wilson volunteer blood for COVID-19 vaccine research
They were amid the beginning celebrities to publicly announce they had contracted the virus. Now, the Hollywood couple are hoping to do some good with information technology.
Tom Hanks and married woman Rita Wilson. (Photo: AFP / Robyn Beck)
Soldiers named Ryan aren't the only people Tom Hanks is trying to relieve. The Hollywood star said that he and his wife Rita Wilson accept volunteered to donate their claret to exist used for vaccine research in the fight against COVID-19.
Hanks revealed the information during an episode of the NPR podcast Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!, during which he was asked whether he would exist immune to the virus now that he had recovered from it.
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"A lot of the questions (are) what do we do at present? Is at that place something we can do? And, in fact, we just establish out that we practice carry the antibodies," he said.
He then said that not only had he been approached, he and Wilson had offered to donate samples of their claret and plasma to help.
He even jokingly suggested a name for the cure, what he would call the "Hank-ccine".
The couple were one of the outset big names to go public with the news that they had contracted the illness. It happened when Hanks and his wife were in Australia to film an Elvis Presley biopic, in which he plays Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
During another interview, with the National Defense Radio Show, Hanks said that while he fared rather well with the virus, Wilson was not as lucky every bit she developed a high fever and lost her sense of smell and taste. The couple were hospitalised in Australia in early March before returning to the US. They have since made a full recovery.
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