Rolling Stone Watch Dolly Parton Get Her Covid Vaccination and Implore ‘Cowards’ to Get Theirs “I’m old enough to get it, and I’m smart enough to get it,” the country legend said of the Moderna shot By John Lamparski/Getty Images Last April, Dolly Parton pledged $1 million to Covid-19 vaccine research, a donation that partly funded the Moderna mRNA vaccine. On Tuesday, the country-music singer and philanthropist received — as her Twitter account tweeted — “a dose of her own medicine,” sitting down at Nashville’s Vanderbilt University Medical Center to receive her first shot of the vaccine she helped create.