whose early trials have been 94.5% effective in combating the disease.The singer donated roughly $1 million to Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine research through the Dolly Parton COVID-19 Research Fund, which she created in April. A recent paper on the Moderna vaccine from the New England Journal of Medicine cites Parton’s fund as one of its major donors (check out the entire research paper on Moderna’s clinical trials here).U.S.