Dolly Parton donated a million dollars to fund the vaccine and has waited her turn to receive it

The country singer helped with her money for the research of Moderna laboratories and after receiving the first dose she encourages to put it on by reinterpreting one of her songs The 75-year-old country singer changes her 'Jolene' for 'Vaccine' when singing while getting vaccinated

Country music singer Dolly Parton received her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and encouraged Americans to do the same in a video posted on her social media. "I've even covered one of my songs for the occasion," said the 75-year-old American star, before singing a new version of her hit Jolene de ella.

"Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine. I beg you, don't hesitate. Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, because once you're dead, it's a bit late." Parton has been inoculated with Moderna's vaccine, which she helped fund early in the pandemic.

Last April, Parton announced that she had donated $ 1 million to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, which was working with Modern Pharmaceuticals to develop the vaccine. Almost a year later, the singer has been vaccinated in this same center and has appealed to all Americans to be encouraged to get vaccinated.

It was last November when it was known that the American singer appeared in the preliminary report of Moderna's vaccine as one of the main investors in scientific research, along with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Emory University. She made a million dollar donation through Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, under the name "Dolly Parton COVID-19 Research Fund," which ultimately went to the development of the new vaccine.

Then it became known that the money reached Moderna's labs in April, after her friend Naji Abumrad, a physician at the Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, told her they were making “some exciting advances. In the search for a cure for the virus. Abumrad and Parton became friends in 2014 after the singer was involved in a car accident and was treated at Vanderbilt.

 “I'm sure many, many millions of dollars from many people went into that [research fund], but I was very proud to have been a part of that little seed money that will hopefully turn into something great and will help heal this world. God knows we need it! ”Parton said a few months ago on the BBC's The One Show.

The country music icon's donation also supported the Vanderbilt convalescent plasma study, the treatment of infected people with the plasma of other virus antibody carriers, as well as the development of several virus-related research articles.