Dolly Parton has been completely vaccinated! According to the country icon, she received a second dose of medicine after donating $ 1 million to fund Moderna surveys
Dolly Parton is fully vaccinated after receiving her second dose of Moderna shot to combat COVID-19.
The legendary 75-year-old singer joked that she received a second dose of medicine after donating $ 1 million to those who worked on the vaccine.
The 9 to 5 hitmaker stylishly looked like he always got the chance and turned to social media to share the important occasion.
Vaccinated! Dolly Parton, 75, reveals that she was fully vaccinated and jokes that she received a ‘second dose of her own medicine’ after donating $ 1 million to fund the Moderna shot.
Her official Twitter page shared two photos of her second jab and she joked: “Dolly gets a (second) dose of her own medicine.”
She also thanks dr. Naji Abumrad, Andrea Calhoun and Heather O’Dell of @VUMChealth who administered the dose.
Last month, she shared a photo of herself receiving her first dose on social media: ‘Dolly gets a dose of her own medicine, ‘and she keeps the joke alive this time.
Dolly insisted she wait for her coronavirus vaccine because she did not want people to think it was a show, adding that there are others who need it more.
Dosage of her own medicine: her official Twitter page shared two photos of her second jab and she joked: ‘Dolly gets a (second) dose of her own medicine’
Returning: “When the pandemic first hit, it was my first thought: ‘I need to do something to help find a vaccine,'” she said of her decision to donate $ 1 million.
‘No. I’m not going to get mine until more people get it. I don’t want it to look like I’m jumping the line just because I donated money. I’m very funny about it, ‘she said in February.
She assured: ‘I’m going to get mine, but I’m going to wait. I’m at the age where I could get my legally last week. I turned 75, ‘- her age to be one of the first groups.
Although she’s shared it, she’s going to do it [her] birthday ‘she decides to hold out. ‘I think, “No, do not do that.” It’s like you’re just doing a show. None of my work is really like that. ‘
While she was one of the earliest qualifying groups based on her age, she humbly decided to hold out so it did not feel like a ‘show’.
And Dolly said she was just ‘happy to be a part’ in creating the vaccine and that she felt compelled to do something when the pandemic struck.
“I follow my heart. I am a believer and pray all the time that God will lead me in the right direction and let me know what to do. When the pandemic first struck, it was my first thought: “I need to do something to help get a vaccine.”
‘I just did research with the people on Vanderbilt [University] “These are wonderful people, they have been so good to my people over the years in times of illness and all that,” she said of her Tennessee roots.
‘I was just asking if I could donate a million dollars to the research for a vaccine. I get a lot more credit than I think I think, but I was just happy to be a part of all this, ‘she says.
Vaccination hero: The veteran singer said she felt compelled to donate money to hep Vanderbilt (in her home state of Tennessee), who is working on the vaccine, and said she ‘followed her heart’; photo 2019