Tom Hanks’ Blood Is Being Used to Develop Coronavirus Vaccine
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variety.comBy Jordan Moreau After recovering from coronavirus, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson have offered their blood to help develop a vaccine for coronavirus.
In early March, the couple tested positive for COVID-19 while in Australia for Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Presley biopic, in which Hanks is starring.
They returned home to Los Angeles at the end of March after quarantining and recovering from their symptoms. Hanks said on NPR’s podcast “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!” last week that he and Wilson volunteered to donate their blood and plasma for coronavirus research. “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,” he said. “We have not only been approached, we
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