Donation From Dolly Parton Helped Fund COVID Vaccine
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.
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.
