Dolly Parton has already received the first dose of her
own
medicine.
The 75-year-old American country singer was vaccinated against COVID-19 on Tuesday with the drug from Moderna, a laboratory to which the artist donated a million dollars last year for research and development of the vaccine.
The star has turned the moment into an event on social networks after posting a video of the live vaccination on his Twitter.
“I am so excited, I have waited a long time.
So I am very happy to get my dose of Moderna today and I want to tell everyone that they should too.
I changed one of my songs about the occasion ,
"says Parton from Nashville Medical Center before starting to sing a new version of its famous theme
Jolene
.
“Get vaccinated, I beg you, don't hesitate.
Get vaccinated, because once you're dead it's a bit late, "the interpreter from Tennessee sings as she explains to her followers the need for everyone to get vaccinated to return to normalcy as soon as possible.
“I may sound funny, but I am very serious about the vaccine.
We all want to get back to normal, wherever it has gone. "
“I want to encourage everyone that the sooner we feel better, the faster we can get back to normal.
So I want to say to all the cowards out there: Don't be chickens!
Go out and get your fix ”, insists the artist.
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.
He made a donation of one million dollars that was made 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.
It then emerged 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 search of 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 [the research fund], but I was very proud to have been 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 at
The One Show
BBC.
The country music icon 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.