Yes, really...
It seems that *Dolly Parton* played a key role in realising the COVID-19 vaccine.
A new article in the *New England Journal of Medicine* describes attempts to pin down the vaccine, with multiple medical teams working continuously across the past 12 months.
In the footnotes of the article, a curious truth is revealed - country icon Dolly Parton helped pay for crucial research.
Moderna have created a vaccine, building their research model around work done by Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Dolly Parton helped make this a reality, paying $1 million of her own money towards the research.
Dolly Parton donated $1 million to Vanderbilt for vaccine research.
Vanderbilt researchers were involved in the Moderna trials.
Ergo, Dolly Parton helped cure COVID.
— Jonathan "Boo and Vote" Cohn (@JonathanCohn) November 17, 2020
Fact-checking this was worth it just to see @DollyParton in the acknowledgments of a @NEJM article. And I thought I couldn’t love her more. https://t.co/S3njHEFcGT pic.twitter.com/WcrFIrHp67
— Dr. Meade Krosby (@MeadeKrosby) November 17, 2020
What an angel. Dolly Parton's new festive LP 'A Holly Dolly Christmas' is out now.
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