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Dolly Parton hasn’t gotten the coronavirus vaccine yet, even though she donated US$1 million for it – 9TheFIX
‘I didn’t want to jump line’
A newly 75-year-old Dolly Parton is eligible to be inoculated against Covid-19 but hasn’t gotten a shot yet, she told CNN, even though she donated US$1 million to vaccine development.
“I’m going to get it, though,” she said Thursday. “I didn’t want to jump line. I didn’t donate the money so I could be protected. I did it for everybody.”
In typical Parton style, she gave the seven-figure sum to help partly fund creation of the Moderna vaccine.
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