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        <title><![CDATA[Of course Dolly Parton donated $1M to help cure COVID-19 with Moderna]]></title>
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						<p>Is Dolly Parton &#8220;workin&#8217; 9-to-5,&#8221; or moonlighting as a medical researcher?</p>
<p>Fans are joking that the Queen of Country has &#8220;cured the coronavirus&#8221; thanks to her $1 million donation to scientists working to develop a vaccine.</p>
<p>Biotech firm Moderna announced Monday that their experimental COVID-19 vaccine <strong>had shown</strong> nearly 95% efficacy in human trials.</p>
<p>Parton made the million-dollar donation to Vanderbilt University back in April, and it just so happens that the university was involved in <strong>Moderna&#8217;s trials</strong>.</p>
<p>&#8220;Dolly Parton donated $1 million to Vanderbilt for vaccine research. Vanderbilt researchers were involved in the Moderna trials. Ergo, Dolly Parton helped cure Covid,&#8221; wrote fan Jonathan Cohn <a href="https://twitter.com/JonathanCohn/status/1328490899853160449" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">on Twitter</a>.</p>
<p>Pointing out the &#8220;Jolene&#8221; singer&#8217;s involvements, graduate student <a href="https://twitter.com/JonathanPKatz/status/1328360693880545281?s=20" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jonathan Katz tweeted</a>, &#8220;Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vacciiiiiiiiiiiiiine.&#8221; (You know the tune!)</p>
<p>Conservation scientist Meade Krosby pointed out that Parton had been shouted out in the acknowledgements of the New England Journal of Medicine report about Moderna&#8217;s new therapy.</p>

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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Fact-checking this was worth it just to see <a href="https://twitter.com/DollyParton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DollyParton</a> in the acknowledgments of a <a href="https://twitter.com/NEJM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NEJM</a> article. And I thought I couldn’t love her more. <strong>https://t.co/S3njHEFcGT</strong> <strong>pic.twitter.com/WcrFIrHp67</strong></p>
<p>&mdash; Dr. Meade Krosby (@MeadeKrosby) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeadeKrosby/status/1328545952685121537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 17, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The 74-year-old icon spoke to reporters earlier this year about her decision to make the big donation.</p>
<p>&#8220;My longtime friend Dr. Naji Abumrad, who’s been involved in research at Vanderbilt for many years, informed me that they were making some exciting advancements towards research of the coronavirus for a cure,&#8221; she <strong>told the Tennessean</strong> in April. &#8220;I am making a donation of $1 million to Vanderbilt towards that research and to encourage people that can afford it to make donations.&#8221;</p>
<p>To that, a gracious fan has <a href="https://twitter.com/broken_rhi/status/1328491372156841985?s=20" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">rightly concluded</a>, &#8220;We don&#8217;t deserve Dolly Parton. God bless that beautiful soul.&#8221;</p>
			
					
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