Dolly Parton is more than willing to do her bit amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis.
U.S. biotechnology firm Moderna became the latest company to reveal their plans for a promising COVID-19 vaccine this week, following news from Pfizer.
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It was then reported that Parton had helped fund the whole thing, paying $1-million of her own money to help pay for crucial research, as part of her support for the Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
The news was revealed in a New England Journal of Medicine article written about the vaccine and how multiple medical teams had been working on it continuously for the past 12 months.
The Massachusetts-based drugmaker’s vaccine is said to be 94.5 per cent effective, according to NBC News.
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The Guardian was among the first to reveal the Parton donation news back in April. Moderna first began trials for a vaccine on March 16.
The country icon was immediately praised online when news of the donation emerged. See some of the reaction below.
Dolly Parton getting us a Covid-19 vaccine, like the absolute boss she is.
— Mark Worgan (@worgztheowl) November 17, 2020
Dolly Parton, Praise Be Upon Her Name. https://t.co/5gzbuP3Qlx
— Van Badham (@vanbadham) November 17, 2020
To no one's surprise, Dolly Parton turns out to be better version of Batman https://t.co/bQ6uW5h98N
— Anna Bogutskaya (@annabdemented) November 17, 2020
Of course Dolly Parton did more to save us from COVID than all of the Trumps combined. https://t.co/QXylXHwUBo
— Betty Cracker 🐊 (@bettycrackerfl) November 17, 2020
more evidence that Dolly Parton is an actual saint https://t.co/48F3iHBw98
— 🦃 Patrick 🖤 (@starclusterr) November 17, 2020
Just when I thought I couldn't love Dolly Parton more https://t.co/TS98Ejroy5
— Prashansa Srivastava (@prashansa_25) November 17, 2020
Fact-checking this was worth it just to see @DollyParton in the acknowledgments of a @NEJM article. And I thought I couldn’t love her more. https://t.co/S3njHEFcGT pic.twitter.com/WcrFIrHp67
— Dr. Meade Krosby (@MeadeKrosby) November 17, 2020
Parton then spoke about how she’d been trending due to the donation during an appearance on “Today 3rd Hour”.
“I’m just happy that anything I can do can help somebody else,” she shared. “When I donated the money to the Covid fund I just wanted it to do good and evidently, it is! Let’s just hope we can find a cure real soon.”
When I donated the money to the Covid fund I just wanted it to do good and evidently, it is! Let’s just hope we can find a cure real soon. pic.twitter.com/dQgDWexO0C
— Dolly Parton (@DollyParton) November 17, 2020
