{"id":77750,"date":"2020-11-18T04:41:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T09:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/uncategorized\/2020\/11\/donation-from-dolly-parton-helped-fund-covid-vaccine\/"},"modified":"2020-11-18T04:41:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T09:41:33","slug":"donation-from-dolly-parton-helped-fund-covid-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/11\/donation-from-dolly-parton-helped-fund-covid-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Donation From Dolly Parton Helped Fund COVID Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CtlXWEo9u0w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Back in April of 2020, country music legend Dolly Parton announced she was donating $1 million to COVID-19 research.<\/p>\n<p>That money helped Moderna develop a vaccine that&#8217;s been almost 95% effective in clinical trials.<\/p>\n<p>You can even find her name in the acknowledgments of the New England Journal of Medicine article.<\/p>\n<p>[twitter id=&#8221;1328545952685121537&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>She was asked about it on Tuesday, November 17th on the &#8220;Today Show&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Yeah, that&#8217;s what I understand. I haven&#8217;t read up enough. They told me that before I went on the air that they may be asking me about that. I&#8217;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&#8217;s just hope we find a cure real soon.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other Dolly news, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2020\/11\/17\/playboy-wants-shoot-dolly-parton-january-magazine-75-birthday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TMZ says<\/a> &#8220;Playboy&#8221; is interested in her being on the cover again.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a response to her saying she&#8217;d like to pose again after she turns 75, which is in January.<\/p>\n<p>She did the cover in 1978 when she was 32.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZBwQLXUj36I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back in April of 2020, country music legend Dolly Parton announced she was donating $1 million to COVID-19 research.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":77751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[3539,498,2269,5069,5070,5071],"class_list":["post-77750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-covid-19","tag-dolly-parton","tag-donation","tag-moderna","tag-playboy","tag-vaccine"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 00:11:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/11\/donation-from-dolly-parton-helped-fund-covid-vaccine\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}