From 'Jolene' To Vaccine: Dolly Parton Gets COVID-19 Shot She Helped Fund - NPR

Dolly Parton, pictured performing in May 2014, shared a video of herself getting her first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday.

Dolly Parton, pictured performing in May 2014, shared a video of herself getting her first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday.

Country music legend Dolly Parton got a taste of her own medicine on Tuesday when she received a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine whose research she helped fund.

Naji Abumrad of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center administered a dose of the Moderna vaccine to Parton, who was wearing a sweater with shoulder cutouts for the occasion.

And Parton, who has a long history of philanthropy, is credited as a financial supporter in a preliminary New England Journal of Medicine report on the Moderna vaccine released in November.

On Tuesday, she said she had been in line for a vaccine since December.