Photo: Loretta Lynn/Instagram; Family Hospital Systems/Facebook
These country legends have gotten their shots!Loretta LynnandWillie Nelsoneach received the COVID vaccine recently — “The Pill” singer in Tennessee and the “On the Road Again” singer in Texas.
Posting to Instagram, Lynn, 88,shared pictures of her outingwith daughter Peggy Lynn, 56, to go get her coronavirus vaccination. The singer wrote that she is “ready to put Covid in the rearview mirror.”
“Well, I bundled up and Peggy Jean and I rolled out of Hurricane Mills so I could get this vaccine,” wrote Lynn. She added “#sickofcovid” and “#getyours” at the end of her caption as she encouraged fans to follow her lead.
Meanwhile, Nelson, 87, went to a drive-thru clinic last Wednesday to receive his shot. Both he and his wife Annie Nelson, 64, registered together to receive their vaccinations from Family Hospital Systems in Texas.
The organization wrote “Thank you Willie Nelson for helping Family Hospital Systems slow the spread of COVID-19” in their caption on a post that featured pictures of Nelson receiving his vaccination on theirFacebookpage.
“He was bragging yesterday after he got it that he didn’t even have a sore arm,” said Annie according toRolling Stone. “Now, today, of course his arm is sore. We’re both just a little tired. I don’t know if we wouldn’t be tired anyway, but we’re gonna do what they said and let the vaccine do its job.”
Each of the vaccines requires a wait time to reach its peak effectiveness, which is thought to beabout two weeks after the second dose.
But even after receiving the vaccine, it is recommended that recipients continue to social distance and wear face masks.
“There’s still a question of if the vaccine stops transmission of COVID, or just stops people from getting symptomatic COVID,” infectious disease clinical researcherLaurel Bristowtold PEOPLE earlier this month. “That’s something that is being looked at right now, so we want to operate under the assumption, just out of pure safety, that vaccinated people could still get asymptomatic COVID and spread it to others.”
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