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Shakespeare, first man to get UK jab, dies – The West Australian
Bill Shakespeare, the first man in the UK to receive a coronavirus vaccine outside a clinical trial, has died.
William Shakespeare, who hit the headlines around the world as the first man to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, has died of an unrelated illness.
Nicknamed “Bill,” the then 81-year-old was the second person in the UK to receive a coronavirus vaccine outside a clinical trial.
Pictures of him receiving the injection at Coventry’s University Hospital last December – shortly after 90-year-old Margaret Keenan – made the front pages of numerous newspapers, including a New York Post report…
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