Coronavirus Outbreak: Tom Hanks and wife Rita Wilson donate blood for COVID-19 vaccine research

Hollywood couple Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, who recently recovered from the coronavirus, are doing their bit to help in the fight against the deadly disease. The actors have volunteered to donate blood and plasma for COVID-19 research, Hanks revealed on NPR’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me! podcast via MSN. (Click  here  to follow LIVE updates on coronavirus outbreak) [caption id=“attachment_8142721” align=“alignnone” width=“1200”] Tom Hanks with wife Rita Wilson[/caption] “A lot of the questions (are) what now? 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 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’,” the actor quipped. The first Hollywood personalities to have COVID-19 infection, Hanks and Wilson revealed their diagnosis on 11 March. They returned home to Los Angeles at the end of March after quarantining and recovering from their symptoms. The couple was in Australia for the pre-production of Baz Luhrmann’s untitled Elvis Presley film from Warner Bros, when they contracted the disease. Hanks stars as Elvis’ manager, Colonel Tom Parker.