Country music star Dolly Parton has yet another new job: sing praises to the coronavirus photos and get vaccinated on camera.
Last year, Mrs. Parton donated $ 1 million to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, which worked with the modern pharmaceutical company to develop one of the first coronavirus vaccines to be authorized in the United States. The federal government ended up investing $ 1 billion in creating and testing the vaccine, but the leader of the research effort, Dr. Mark Denison, said the singer’s donation financed his critical early stages.
On Tuesday, Mrs. Parton, 75, received an injection of Moderna at Vanderbilt Health, Tennessee. “Dolly gets a dose of her own medicine,” she wrote on Twitter.
“Well, hey, it’s me,” she told fans in a video that accompanied her, a minute before a doctor arrived to vaccinate her. “I’m finally going to get my vaccine.”
“I’m so excited,” she added in the video, which has accumulated over a million views in about four hours. “I’ve been waiting for a while. I’m old enough for that and I’m smart enough for that. “
She also started to sing (naturally), substituting the word “Jolene” in one of her most popular choruses for “vaccine”.
“Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine,” she sang, embellishing the latter with her Tennessee trademark song. “I’m begging you, please don’t hesitate.”
“Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine,” she added, “because, once you die, it’s too late.”
Just before the doctor arrived to vaccinate her – or “put me on the arm,” as she says – she folded the message.
“I know I’m trying to be funny right now, but I’m serious about the vaccine,” she said. “I think we all want to get back to normal – whatever it is It is – and that would be a great shot in the arm, wouldn’t it? “
“I just want to tell all of you cowards: don’t be so crouched,” she added. “Go there and take your chance.”