Donation From Dolly Parton Helped Fund COVID Vaccine
November 18, 2020 4:41 amBack in April of 2020, country music legend Dolly Parton announced she was donating $1 million to COVID-19 research.
That money helped Moderna develop a vaccine that’s been almost 95% effective in clinical trials.
You can even find her name in the acknowledgments of the New England Journal of Medicine article.
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She was asked about it on Tuesday, November 17th on the “Today Show”.
“Yeah, that’s what I understand. I haven’t read up enough. They told me that before I went on the air that they may be asking me about that. I’m just happy that anything I do can help somebody else, and when I donated the money to the COVID fund, I just wanted it to do good. Evidently, it is. Let’s just hope we find a cure real soon.”
In other Dolly news, TMZ says “Playboy” is interested in her being on the cover again.
That’s a response to her saying she’d like to pose again after she turns 75, which is in January.
She did the cover in 1978 when she was 32.
Tags: Covid-19, Dolly Parton, donation, Moderna, Playboy, vaccineCategorised in: Country Music News
This post was written by Cheryl Johnstone