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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDolly Parton helped fund the Moderna vaccine and was acknowledged in the
New England Journal of Medicine article footnotes!
https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/2020/11/17/dolly-parton-vaccine-funding-moderna-covid-19/6322836002/
"A million-dollar donation by Dolly Parton has helped fund the production of a promising new coronavirus vaccine by Moderna Therapeutics.
Massachusetts-based biotechnology company Moderna released data early Monday on its candidate vaccine, mRNA-1273, finding that it reduced the risk of COVID-19 infection by 94.5%.
According to a preliminary report on the vaccine by The New England Journal of Medicine, Parton was credited among others for her donation to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, which she announced in April.
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Arkansas Granny
(31,515 posts)Nay
(12,051 posts)crickets
(25,966 posts)Sucha NastyWoman
(2,748 posts)Behind Michelle Obama.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)Yavin4
(35,438 posts)president.
Do I have that right?
Tanuki
(14,918 posts)Lucinda
(31,170 posts)The people that I have known who know her say that she is everything you would hope she'd be.
❤️ ~✿~❧~🌿~❧~✿~ ❤️
Nay
(12,051 posts)underpants
(182,788 posts)Amazing.
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)calimary
(81,222 posts)Thank God there even ARE people at her status level who are pushing forward in spite of the present (and SOON-to-be-PAST) leadership.
handmade34
(22,756 posts)If We Dont -Dolly Parton, Rhonda Vincent, Alison Krauss
Look around and see what's goin' on
What's goin' on, what's goin' on
To me it seems to be so very wrong
So very wrong, can't get along
We can find the answers to
The questions and then and when we do
I do believe
We could do a whole lot better
If we walk this life together
Who will make a difference in this world
If we don't?
I'd like to think there is a better way
A better way, a brighter day
And I'd rather think like this than to be swayed
The other way and only say
"There's no point to even try"
Be content to live a life of
"I have faith"
When we decide to, we can change it
Take our world and rearrange it
Who is ever gonna change it, change it
If we don't?
Take a look inside ourselves, see what we can do
Make a step to be of help, so much to be improved
Try to make a difference in this world before we're through
Who will do it, who will do it, who will do it, who?
If we don't?
So look around and see what's goin' on
Everything just seems to be so wrong
If we'd open up our eyes
We could see a better life
I still believe
There's a place for all of us
If we'd reach out and touch the love
Nothing's gonna ever change it much
If we don't
ananda
(28,858 posts)Thank you, Dolly!
Budi
(15,325 posts)Kushner was pushing a Vaccine company earlier in the pandemic . THAT's the one that better not get a contract.
You KNOW that bunch of grifters were looking to profit early on..
Good for Dolly.
alittlelark
(18,890 posts)She is REAL.
Rebl2
(13,497 posts)is. She tries to make the world a better place for others 😊
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)I have liked and still do.
I believe that Country Music has the dubious distinction of being the only USA born music genre that does not have its origin in African American created music, even as there have been a couple of massive African American stars in CM, Charlie Pride and Darius Rucker.
Tanuki
(14,918 posts)African American harmonica player DeFord Bailey. He later toured with some of the leading country stars of the day, including Bill Monroe and Roy Acuff.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeFord_Bailey
Also, some of the most influential figures in the early years of country music (including Hank Williams and Jimmie Rodgers) were mentored in their youth and/or drew from African American blues musicians.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_Payne
. "Rufus "Tee Tot" Payne (February 4, 1883 March 17, 1939) was an early 20th-century African-American blues musician from Greenville, Alabama who was more widely known by his nickname Tee Tot.
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Tee Tot is best known for being a mentor to Hank Williams. Rufus Payne met Hank Williams when Hank was eight years old and legend has it he would come around and play Hank's guitar, showing Hank how to improvise chords. His influence in exposing Williams to blues and other African American influences helped Williams successfully fuse hillbilly, folk and blues into his own unique style, which in turn expanded and exposed both white and black audiences to the differing sounds.
https://countrymusichalloffame.org/artist/jimmie-rodgers/
"James Charles Rodgers, known professionally as the Singing Brakeman and Americas Blue Yodeler, was the first performer inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
He was honored as the Father of Country Music, the man who started it all. From many diverse elementsthe traditional melodies and folk music of his southern upbringing, early jazz, stage show yodeling, the work chants of railroad section crews and, most importantly, African-American bluesRodgers evolved a lasting musical style which made him immensely popular in his own time and a major influence on generations of country artists."....
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And...don't forget that the banjo itself is derived from African string instruments! It's all good!
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,175 posts)Now there is someone who deserves a Presidential Medal of Freedom!
JohnnyRingo
(18,628 posts)If Biden took it away from someone and gave it to her.
Rebl2
(13,497 posts)UncleTomsEvilBrother
(945 posts)...
nuxvomica
(12,422 posts)It's getting to be kinda overkill, Dolly. You had us at your phenomenal vocal control.
VA_Jill
(9,966 posts)to the rest of the world...the one and only Dolly. Love this woman SO much!
genxlib
(5,524 posts)"Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vacciiiiiiiiiiiiiine"
Sung to the tune of Jolene
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Thanks, Dolly...again.
redstateblues
(10,565 posts)treats people in private the same way she treats people in public. She is a national treasure!
mvd
(65,173 posts)K&R
PatrickforO
(14,571 posts)Trump is going to go down in history as a monster, as the worst president this nation has ever had. Ever.
And yes, he does belong in a prison cell.
But good on Dolly Parton!
Lars39
(26,109 posts)jeffreyi
(1,939 posts)She would donate the proceeds to some good cause, too.
MaryMagdaline
(6,853 posts)aikoaiko
(34,169 posts)Lonestarblue
(9,981 posts)The good people in life like Dolly Parton voluntarily do things that help. The evil people like Trump only do things to hurt.
Botany
(70,501 posts)Tanuki
(14,918 posts)Larissa
(790 posts)She routinely performs such heroics but never toots her horn about it. It is only from others that her enduring generosities are made known.
Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)Hassler
(3,377 posts)To kids and I loved her. Now this. Give her a Nobel prize already.
JohnnyRingo
(18,628 posts)Lesser individuals have been honored in the past.
Hekate
(90,662 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,628 posts)Good for her.
A country star with the heart of a saint.
Midnight Writer
(21,753 posts)Mosby
(16,306 posts)She didn't "donate" a million dollars to this private company.
I wonder what the ROI is.
Probably 10s of millions.
Good for her, I guess.
Tanuki
(14,918 posts)She made the donation to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, which is based in Nashville, where she lives, and where she has been a patient in the past. Vanderbilt is a partner in the ongoing research with Pfizer on the vaccine, and is also involved in several other covid research projects including convalescent plasma efficacy and the length of duration of post-infection immunity. I don't know why you would try to dismiss and disparage Dolly's generosity without looking into this first.
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BannonsLiver
(16,370 posts)LuvNewcastle
(16,844 posts)My parents used to take us up to the Smokies every year for a getaway, and my parents still go up there from time to time. In the past several years, they've gone to visit Dollywood several times to see the shows. One year Dolly sent them a free trip, free hotel stay and everything. How many places do that without being coerced? Dolly is going to be the patron saint of the Smokies when she dies.
dalton99a
(81,468 posts)Hulk
(6,699 posts)So, where are zuckerberg and the evil, twisted f'up koch bros. The walmart magnets and the other MULTI-billion dollar assholes!
Blows my mind that the can have no souls. Hope there is a hell.
mopinko
(70,090 posts)i ordered it yesterday, BEFORE i saw this news.
i got the physical cd, cuz xmas music is something i plan to pass along to the person who picks up the cookie making around here.
so, if you want to say thanks...
russiamommy
(244 posts)KWR65
(1,098 posts)At least that is what they are doing to Bill & Melinda Gates.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,013 posts)her !
pazzyanne
(6,549 posts)She is continuing her philantropic activities. Wonderful woman, using her $$$ to help humanity.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)I've liked her ever since I saw her on Carson - so you know how long ago that was. She can also play the guitar pretty well. I can't say her music has won me over, but her heart gets her a pass...and more. What a great person.
halfulglas
(1,654 posts)I've mostly been a rock and pop fan in my life but I love some of her songs and love her in movies, especially 9 to 5. But I especially love how she's always stood up for herself in the business side of the music industry which is famously male dominated. She has retained the rights to her voluminous song library both from when she was singing with Porter Waggoner and even stood up to Col. Tom Parker, Elvis's legendary greedy manager. The story I heard was he had a habit of having writers give Elvis co-composer credit for any songs Elvis wanted to record. Many people did so for the possibility of sharing in an Elvis hit. Dolly said no, she would love to have him record the song, but it was hers. To sign off on it, even when others record the song, Elvis would have gotten some of her royalties, and she wasn't going to do that. I think she is a fantastic role model for young women in entertainment.
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)She grew up in extreme poverty.
TBA
(825 posts)Norbert
(6,039 posts)I wouldn't doubt that she was a little reluctant for this to be made public.
irisblue
(32,969 posts)Initech
(100,068 posts)Lunabell
(6,080 posts)Love her to pieces! Such a wonderful human being.