Dolly Parton: The Hero We Need Now

The BDN Editorial Board operates independently from the newsroom, and does not set policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com. When Jad Abumrad’s father, a physician, said he was friends with Dolly Parton, the radio host didn’t believe him. It turns out there are a lot of unbelievable things about Parton’s friendship with Naji Abumrad, and how it spurred the development of a vaccine against the coronavirus. Here’s the short story: A donation that Parton made to Vanderbilt University, where Dr.