Dolly Parton helped fund the Moderna vaccine and was acknowledged in the

[Tanuki]

New England Journal of Medicine article footnotes!


https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/2020/11/17/dolly-parton-vaccine-funding-moderna-covid-19/6322836002/

"A million-dollar donation by Dolly Parton has helped fund the production of a promising new coronavirus vaccine by Moderna Therapeutics. 

Massachusetts-based biotechnology company Moderna released data early Monday on its candidate vaccine, mRNA-1273, finding that it reduced the risk of COVID-19 infection by 94.5%. 

According to a preliminary report on the vaccine by The New England Journal of Medicine, Parton was credited among others for her donation to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, which she announced in April.
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[LAS14]

1. :-)

[Arkansas Granny]

2. I love that woman. She does so many good things.

[Nay]

7. I love her, too. She does so many good things. We need more Dolly Partons!

[crickets]

53. Same here. Dolly is an amazing, wonderful person. nt

[Sucha NastyWoman]

64. Maybe America's #2 Woman

Behind Michelle Obama.

[NCjack]

3. Dolly, Thank you!

[Yavin4]

4. So, I live in a country where Dolly Parton has done more to fight covid-19 than my current

president.

Do I have that right?

[Tanuki]

5. She has also done more to promote literacy!

[Lucinda]

58. It's one of my favorite things about her

The people that I have known who know her say that she is everything you would hope she'd be.
❤️ ~✿~❧~🌿~❧~✿~ ❤️

[Nay]

8. You are correct!

[underpants]

14. You pretty much nailed it

Amazing.

[Elwood P Dowd]

27. +1000 K&R

[calimary]

68. Indeed. Fancy that.

Thank God there even ARE people at her status level who are pushing forward in spite of the present (and SOON-to-be-PAST) “leadership”.

[handmade34]

6. that's our Dolly Pardon!!!

If We Don’t -Dolly Parton, Rhonda Vincent, Alison Krauss


Look around and see what's goin' on
What's goin' on, what's goin' on
To me it seems to be so very wrong
So very wrong, can't get along
We can find the answers to
The questions and then and when we do
I do believe
We could do a whole lot better
If we walk this life together
Who will make a difference in this world
If we don't?

I'd like to think there is a better way
A better way, a brighter day
And I'd rather think like this than to be swayed
The other way and only say
"There's no point to even try"
Be content to live a life of
"I have faith"
When we decide to, we can change it
Take our world and rearrange it
Who is ever gonna change it, change it
If we don't?

Take a look inside ourselves, see what we can do
Make a step to be of help, so much to be improved
Try to make a difference in this world before we're through
Who will do it, who will do it, who will do it, who?
If we don't?

So look around and see what's goin' on
Everything just seems to be so wrong
If we'd open up our eyes
We could see a better life
I still believe
There's a place for all of us
If we'd reach out and touch the love
Nothing's gonna ever change it much
If we don't

[ananda]

9. I've always liked her, now more than ever.

Thank you, Dolly!

[Budi]

10. I want to know which Company Trump Org is invested in.

Kushner was pushing a Vaccine company earlier in the pandemic . THAT's the one that better not get a contract.
You KNOW that bunch of grifters were looking to profit early on..


Good for Dolly.

[alittlelark]

11. I dislike country music, but have always LOVED Dolly Parton.

She is REAL.

[Rebl2]

46. Yes she

is. She tries to make the world a better place for others 😊

[Blue_true]

50. I am no Country Music fan, but there have been songs from that genre that

I have liked and still do.

I believe that Country Music has the dubious distinction of being the only USA born music genre that does not have it’s origin in African American created music, even as there have been a couple of massive African American stars in CM, Charlie Pride and Darius Rucker.

[Tanuki]

59. Fun fact: the first artist ever to perform on the Grand Ole Opry was

African American harmonica player DeFord Bailey. He later toured with some of the leading country stars of the day, including Bill Monroe and Roy Acuff.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeFord_Bailey


Also, some of the most influential figures in the early years of country music (including Hank Williams and Jimmie Rodgers) were mentored in their youth and/or drew from African American blues musicians.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_Payne
. "Rufus "Tee Tot" Payne (February 4, 1883 – March 17, 1939) was an early 20th-century African-American blues musician from Greenville, Alabama who was more widely known by his nickname Tee Tot.
...
Tee Tot is best known for being a mentor to Hank Williams. Rufus Payne met Hank Williams when Hank was eight years old and legend has it he would come around and play Hank's guitar, showing Hank how to improvise chords. His influence in exposing Williams to blues and other African American influences helped Williams successfully fuse hillbilly, folk and blues into his own unique style, which in turn expanded and exposed both white and black audiences to the differing sounds.

https://countrymusichalloffame.org/artist/jimmie-rodgers/

"James Charles Rodgers, known professionally as the “Singing Brakeman” and “America’s Blue Yodeler,” was the first performer inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
He was honored as the Father of Country Music, “the man who started it all.” From many diverse elements—the traditional melodies and folk music of his southern upbringing, early jazz, stage show yodeling, the work chants of railroad section crews and, most importantly, African-American blues—Rodgers evolved a lasting musical style which made him immensely popular in his own time and a major influence on generations of country artists."....
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And...don't forget that the banjo itself is derived from African string instruments! It's all good!

[Blue_true]

66. Wow, I didn't know any of that. Thanks. nt

[Buns_of_Fire]

12. I should've known.

Now there is someone who deserves a Presidential Medal of Freedom!

[JohnnyRingo]

36. Even better.

If Biden took it away from someone and gave it to her.

[Rebl2]

47. I second that!

[UncleTomsEvilBrother]

13. Jolene could never!

...

[nuxvomica]

15. Dolly needs to stop giving us reasons to love her so much

It's getting to be kinda overkill, Dolly. You had us at your phenomenal vocal control.

[VA_Jill]

16. East Tennessee's gift

to the rest of the world...the one and only Dolly. Love this woman SO much!

[genxlib]

17. Love the tag line on that tweet

"Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vacciiiiiiiiiiiiiine"

Sung to the tune of Jolene

[Cracklin Charlie]

18. National Treasure.

Thanks, Dolly...again.

[redstateblues]

19. I know some folks that have worked with Dolly and she

treats people in private the same way she treats people in public. She is a national treasure!

[mvd]

20. Great woman and great singer

K&R

[PatrickforO]

21. Wow. Good for Dolly!

Trump is going to go down in history as a monster, as the worst president this nation has ever had. Ever.

And yes, he does belong in a prison cell.

But good on Dolly Parton!

[Lars39]

22. And that was early money....when they probably needed it the most

[jeffreyi]

23. Now there's somebody I could see receiving a peace prize.

She would donate the proceeds to some good cause, too.

[MaryMagdaline]

24. She's a patriot - and Democrat

[aikoaiko]

29. +1

[Lonestarblue]

25. I'm sure fake billionaire Donald Trump must have donated too!

The good people in life like Dolly Parton voluntarily do things that help. The evil people like Trump only do things to hurt.

[Botany]

26. The Sweetest Gift

[Tanuki]

31. Their harmonies are fabulous.

[Larissa]

28. Dolly Parton is amazing

She routinely performs such heroics but never toots her horn about it. It is only from others that her enduring generosities are made known.

[Wounded Bear]

30. Good stuff from a great lady!

[Hassler]

32. I've always liked Dolly. Then I learned about her getting books

To kids and I loved her. Now this. Give her a Nobel prize already.

[JohnnyRingo]

35. ★★★★★

Lesser individuals have been honored in the past.

[Hekate]

33. What a wonderful human being Dolly is. She awes me.

[JohnnyRingo]

34. Dolly gives back.

Good for her.
A country star with the heart of a saint.

[Midnight Writer]

37. Dolly puts her money where her heart is.

[Mosby]

38. It was an investment, right?

She didn't "donate" a million dollars to this private company.

I wonder what the ROI is.

Probably 10s of millions.

Good for her, I guess.

[Tanuki]

42. Wrong. It was a charitable donation, not a financial investment.

She made the donation to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, which is based in Nashville, where she lives, and where she has been a patient in the past. Vanderbilt is a partner in the ongoing research with Pfizer on the vaccine, and is also involved in several other covid research projects including convalescent plasma efficacy and the length of duration of post-infection immunity. I don't know why you would try to dismiss and disparage Dolly's generosity without looking into this first.

[BannonsLiver]

61. Wrong

[LuvNewcastle]

39. We like Dolly in my family.

My parents used to take us up to the Smokies every year for a getaway, and my parents still go up there from time to time. In the past several years, they've gone to visit Dollywood several times to see the shows. One year Dolly sent them a free trip, free hotel stay and everything. How many places do that without being coerced? Dolly is going to be the patron saint of the Smokies when she dies.

[dalton99a]

40. Kick

[Hulk]

41. Love that woman...always have.

So, where are zuckerberg and the evil, twisted f'up koch bros. The walmart magnets and the other MULTI-billion dollar assholes!

Blows my mind that the can have no souls. Hope there is a hell.

[mopinko]

43. she has a new xmas cd.

i ordered it yesterday, BEFORE i saw this news.
i got the physical cd, cuz xmas music is something i plan to pass along to the person who picks up the cookie making around here.

so, if you want to say thanks...

[russiamommy]

45. Love, love, love Dolly!

[KWR65]

48. I'm sure the anti-vaxxers will cry, "Dolly is trying to poison me!"

At least that is what they are doing to Bill & Melinda Gates.

[FailureToCommunicate]

49. Yet ANOTHER reason that I will always love...

her !

[pazzyanne]

52. Thank you, Dolly!

She is continuing her philantropic activities. Wonderful woman, using her $$$ to help humanity.

[BobTheSubgenius]

54. Good on Dolly!!!

I've liked her ever since I saw her on Carson - so you know how long ago that was. She can also play the guitar pretty well. I can't say her music has won me over, but her heart gets her a pass...and more. What a great person.

[halfulglas]

55. Super smart and great business person.

I've mostly been a rock and pop fan in my life but I love some of her songs and love her in movies, especially 9 to 5. But I especially love how she's always stood up for herself in the business side of the music industry which is famously male dominated. She has retained the rights to her voluminous song library both from when she was singing with Porter Waggoner and even stood up to Col. Tom Parker, Elvis's legendary greedy manager. The story I heard was he had a habit of having writers give Elvis co-composer credit for any songs Elvis wanted to record. Many people did so for the possibility of sharing in an Elvis hit. Dolly said no, she would love to have him record the song, but it was hers. To sign off on it, even when others record the song, Elvis would have gotten some of her royalties, and she wasn't going to do that. I think she is a fantastic role model for young women in entertainment.

[Elwood P Dowd]

56. Dolly's 'Coat of Many Colors' has 11,000,000 YouTube views......

She grew up in extreme poverty.

[TBA]

57. I'll cry my eyes out when she passes... same for Jimmy Carter.

[Norbert]

60. She never forgot where she came from

I wouldn't doubt that she was a little reluctant for this to be made public.

[irisblue]

62. the Jolene Vaccine right there folks.

[Initech]

63. Working 9 to 5!

[Lunabell]

65. Good Golly, Miss Dolly!

Love her to pieces! Such a wonderful human being.

[uponit7771]

67. This does help me, not 100% but it helps