Dolly Parton gets vaccine: Country music star Dolly Parton got her dose of COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday. The 75-year-old received a Moderna shot at Vanderbilt Health in Tennessee. Parton had helped in funding the same vaccine of which she has now received the dose.
“Dolly gets a dose of her own medicine,” she wrote on Twitter.
"Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, I'm begging of you, please don't hesitate," Parton can be heard singing in a video, while getting her shot, reimagining one of her hit songs. “Well, hey, it’s me,” she said to her fans a minute before a doctor arrives to inoculate her. “I’m finally gonna get my vaccine.”
“I’m so excited. I’ve been waiting a while,” the Grammy-winning musician added in the video. "I'm old enough to get it and I'm smart enough to get it," the singer urged fans to get vaccinated as soon as possible. After getting her first shot, she affirmed, “That didn’t hurt.”
Last year, Parton donated $1 million to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, which worked with biotech giant Moderna to develop one of the first authorised coronavirus vaccines in the United States.
A portion of the fund was used for an early stage-trial of the Moderna vaccine. In trials, the Moderna vaccine was termed “safe” to use and found to provide up to 95 percent protection against severe coronavirus.
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