An 81-year-old man became the second person to receive a COVID-19 vaccine in the U.K. on Tuesday, but he gained worldwide attention over his name: William Shakespeare.
Shakespeare, who hails from Warwickshire, the county where the famous English poet was born, got his shot at University Hospital Coventry.
Shortly after receiving the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, Shakespeare said it was “groundbreaking” for him to be getting one.
“It could make a difference to our lives from now on, couldn’t it?” he said. “It’s started changing our lives and our lifestyle.”
The first 800,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine in the U.K. are going to people older than 80 who are either hospitalized or already have outpatient appointments scheduled, along with nursing home workers. The U.K. is getting a head start on the project after British regulators gave emergency authorization on Dec. 2 to the vaccine produced by U.S. drugmaker Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech. The first recipient was grandmother Margaret Keenan, who turns 91 next week.
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