Tom Hanks Takes To Instagram To Share Photos Of His Recent Plasma Donation
As we’ve previously reported here at MickeyBlog, esteemed actor (and voice of Woody in the Toy Story Films, ) Tom Hanks was one of the first celebrities to contraction COVID-19 earlier this spring. Both he and his wife Rita Wilson were quarantined in Australia where he was shooting a film and where the diagnosis was made.
Hanks took to social media last week to announce that he was hoping to turn his illness into something positive by donating his plasma since he has the COVID-19 antibodies to help others struggling with the virus. According to a recent post on Instagram, It looks like Hanks has made good on his promise!
As you can see from the image above, the Oscar winner shared photos of his plasma donation. He captioned the photo, “Here’s last week’s bag of plasma. Such a bag!” He added, “After the paperwork, it’s as easy as taking a nap. Thanks, @arimoin and UCLA. Hanx.”
Hanks, 63, and wife Rita Wilson, 63, said after recovering from coronavirus that they would both donate.
“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,” Hanks said on NPR’s podcast “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!”
Hanks said the couple learned that they had antibodies after their bout with COVID-19, which they were diagnosed with last month in Australia while Hanks was working on Baz Luhrmann’s now-delayed Elvis Presley biopic.
“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,” Hanks said.
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