Donation From Dolly Parton Helped Fund COVID Vaccine

November 18, 2020 4:41 am Published by

Back 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.

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This post was written by Cheryl Johnstone