JOKES: Tom Hanks said that his donated blood should go toward a coronavirus vaccine called the “Hank-ccine”

Tom Hanks says the blood that him and wife Rita Wilson donated after recovering from the coronavirus, should go toward a “Hank-ccine.”

During a recent episode of NPR’s “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!” Hanks, 63, explained that him and Wilson are feeling “dandy,” although Wilson, 63, had a worse diagnosis. “She had a very high temperature. And we were isolated so that we would not give it to anyone else.”

The actor continued, “Well, a lot of the question is what now, you know? What do we do now? Is there something we can do? And, in fact, we just found out that we do carry the antibodies.” Antibodies are proteins in the body that some experts say protect patients from reinfection, however on Friday, the World Health Organization stated, “There is currently no evidence that people who have recovered from COVID-19 and have antibodies are protected from a second infection.”

When asked whether Hanks has been approached to harvest his blood, Hanks replied, “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…”

Wilson first shared that the couple had donated their blood in an April interview with CBS This Morning’s Gayle King. They also hoped to donate plasma to COVID-19 patients.