Dolly Parton praised for contributing funds to promising new COVID-19 vaccine

It turns out Dolly Parton is trying to help the world return to some form of normality amid the coronavirus pandemic by helping fund research for Moderna Therapeutics' promising new COVID-19 vaccine, which published its preliminary reports from a large testing trial on Monday (16 November) that showed the vaccine is 94.5% effective against coronavirus.

According to the footnotes on an article published by New England Journal of Medicine, the Dolly Parton COVID-19 Research Fund donated funds towards research for the new vaccine as part of her support for the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Multiple reports note that Parton donated over one million dollars of her own money to the vaccine research.

In 2020, Dolly Parton's stood up for Black Lives Matter and put $1 million towards a Covid vaccine, and the year's not over yet.

There's a strong argument that America should give up the whole 'democracy' thing as a bad idea now, and just make Dolly Parton queen of everything.

— Simon Price (@simon_price01) November 17, 2020

Dolly Parton donated $1 million to Vanderbilt for vaccine research.

Vanderbilt researchers were involved in the Moderna trials.

Ergo, Dolly Parton helped cure COVID.

— Jonathan "Boo and Vote" Cohn (@JonathanCohn) November 17, 2020

Why are we not discussing the fact that the vaccine with the good news this morning was partly funded by Dolly Parton?

Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vacciiiiiiiiiiiiiine

— Jonathan Katz, hoping for pumpkin snacks (@JonathanPKatz) November 16, 2020

I want everyone to know that Dolly Parton gave us Buffy the tv series, the song 9 to 5, Dollywood, and of course the Covid vaccine. https://t.co/mCPB3QlCpZ

— Kevidently (@Kevidently) November 17, 2020