Country singer Dolly Parton gives $ 1 million to fund Moderna vaccine

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Fans of the country legend never stop praising their idol on social media, and for good reason.

The singer donated $ 1 million from her personal fortune to help research into the coronavirus vaccine.

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Dolly Parton made this huge donation in April to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

She had announced it in the wake on her Instagram account, calling her followers "

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It was a friend of hers, a professor at Vanderbilt, who told her about the research her institute was doing on the vaccine.

The money was used to fund a clinical trial of the vaccine developed by Moderna, which recently made headlines with its 94.5% effectiveness rate.

We can see the name of the singer and businesswoman in the credits of the essay in question, published in an American medical journal.

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A gesture hailed by many Internet users, in an America fractured by the health crisis.

The virus has already killed nearly 250,000 people in the United States, the country most affected since the start of the pandemic, where the vaccine race has become a major political issue.