Dolly Parton is fully vaccinated! The country icon jokes that she received a “second dose of her own medicine” after donating $ 1 million to help finance Moderna shot
Dolly Parton is fully vaccinated after receiving her second dose of Moderna injection to combat COVID-19.
The legendary 75-year-old singer joked that she received a ‘second dose of her own medicine’ after donating $ 1 million to those working on the vaccine.
The 9 to 5 hitmaker looked stylish as always taking the picture and went to social media to share the important occasion.
Vaccinated! Dolly Parton, 75, reveals that she is fully vaccinated and jokes that she received a “second dose of her own medicine” after donating $ 1 million to help finance the injection of Moderna
Her official Twitter page shared two images of her receiving her second jab and she joked ‘Dolly receives a (second) dose of her own medicine.’
She also thanked 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, captioning the image: ‘Dolly gets a dose of her own medicine ‘, and she continued to keep the joke alive this time.
Dolly insisted that she would wait for the coronavirus vaccine because she didn’t want people to think it was a show, adding that there were others who needed more.
Dose of her own medicine: her official Twitter page shared two images of her receiving her second injection and she joked ‘Dolly receives a (second) dose of her own medicine’
Reciprocating: ‘When the pandemic first hit, that was my first thought,’ I need to do something to try to help find a vaccine ‘, she shared about her decision to donate $ 1 million
‘Not. I won’t take mine until more people take theirs. I don’t want it to look like I’m skipping the line just because I donated money. I’m really funny about it, ‘she said in February.
She said: ‘But I will take mine, but I will wait. I’m at the age when I could have gotten mine legally last week. I turned 75, ‘- her age placing her among one of the first eligible groups.
Although she shared that she would do this in [her] birthday, ”she decided to postpone. ‘ME I thought, “Nah, don’t do that.” You will look like you are just doing a show. None of my work is really like that. ‘
Postponing: despite being among one of the first eligible groups based on her age, she humbly decided to postpone so that it didn’t look like a ‘show’
And Dolly said she was ‘happy to be a part’ of creating the vaccine and felt compelled to do something when the pandemic struck.
‘I follow my heart. I am a person of faith and I pray all the time that God will lead me in the right direction and tell me what to do. When the pandemic first appeared, it was my first thought: “I need to do something to try to help find a vaccine”.
‘I just did some research with the people at Vanderbilt [University] – they are wonderful people, they have been so good over the years with my people in times of illness and everything, ‘she said of her Tennessee roots.
“I just asked if I could donate a million dollars to research a vaccine. I get a lot more credit than I deserve, but I was happy to be a part of it all, ‘she shared.
Vaccine hero: The veteran singer said she felt compelled to donate money for hepatitis Vanderbilt (in her home state, Tennessee) to work on the vaccine, saying she ‘followed her heart’; Pictured 2019