Country Music icon Dolly Parton donated one million dollars to support the development of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine research and several research papers.
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The music icon back in April donated £800,000 for the research after her friend Dr Naji Abumrad of the Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee told her they were making “some exciting advancements” in the search for a cure for the virus.
It is said the Moderna vaccine, which shows 95% protection from the virus and Moderna is working on potentially producing 1bn doses of the vaccine by the end of 2021 and is applying for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The Dolly Parton Covid-19 research fund is the latest example of Parton’s well-known philanthropy. Her Imagination Library gifts free books to children from birth until starting school in participating areas. She recently told Oprah Winfrey that she never had children “because I believe that God didn’t mean for me to have kids so everybody’s kids could be mine, so I could do things like the Imagination Library.”
