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Dolly Parton hasn't gotten the coronavirus vaccine yet, even though she donated $1 million for it

(CNN) — 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 $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.

It was a sideline effort by the country music legend, not unlike another project Parton spoke about with CNN: reworking her famous song, "9 to 5," as "5 to 9" for website building and e-commerce platform Squarespace's Super Bowl ad.

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