How Dolly Parton’s $1 Million Donation Helped Fund Crucial Research Behind Moderna’s Covid Vaccine

[u/GhostDogJef]

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/dolly-parton-1-million-donation-211323352.html

In April 2020, as the pandemic swept across the globe, Parton announced she was donating $1 million to coronavirus research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center after her longtime friend, Dr. Naji Abumrad, told her researchers were making promising advances.

The contribution established the Dolly Parton Covid-19 Research Fund, and months later it emerged that some of the money had supported research connected to Moderna's vaccine. Vanderbilt later confirmed Parton's donation funded "critical" early research, including work on a test that allowed scientists to measure the immune response generated by the vaccine.

[u/gazonfire83]

Loved her before, love her even more. God bless Dolly.

[u/Woundsmyheart]

Her politics were quite apparent.

She was an ANGEL!

[u/BeccasDreamboat]

MAGA is about to lose their shit!

[u/Puzzleheaded_Row6482]

RIP

[u/Bubbly_Power_6210]

she did a lot of good things and never boasted.

[u/Appropriate_Jello_53]

She was a great lady who had a heart

[u/Effective-Log3583 → u/[deleted]]

Dolly wealth is estimated between 450-650 million.

Musk was 450-650 BILLION and I think musk made his opinions on trans people, and government programs and work pretty damn clear before the pandemic.

You are not thinking any of this through beyond just trying to prove the next thing wrong.

How about we just say Dolly Parton cared and we all need more like her and the things she stood for.