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The first man to get the COVID-19 vaccine outside of a clinical trial has shuffled off this mortal coil.
William Shakespeare, who went by Bill, died of a stroke Thursday at the age of 81, according to multiple media reports.
Shakespeare, an 81-year-old former worker at Rolls-Royce and parish councillor, got the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID jab in December at University Hospital Coventry shortly after 91-year-old Margaret Keenan, the first person in the world to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. Shakespeare was an inpatient at the hospital when he was vaccinated.
“Bill was so grateful for being offered the opportunity to become one of the first people in the world to be given the vaccine,” his wife of 53 years, Joy, said in a statement released by the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust. “It was something he was hugely proud of — he loved seeing the media coverage and the positive difference he was able to make to the lives of so many.
“He often talked to people about it and would always encourage everyone to get their vaccine whenever he could.”
Coventry councillor Jayne Innes, who was a friend of Shakespeare, said “the best tribute to Bill is to have the jab.”
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2021-05-26 02:52:05Z
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