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How Dolly Parton supported COVID research

How Dolly Parton supported COVID research

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Nov 27, 2020
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The year is almost over and it finally feels like there's light at the end of the tunnel, with several vaccines showing promising results. But almost as exciting was the revelation earlier this month that some of the research behind Moderna's vaccine was funded by Dolly Parton.

Image sources: Dolly Parton by John Mathew Smith via Wikimedia (CC-BY) and CO…

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