LONDON – William Shakespeare died. Not the author of Hamlet, who has already rested for centuries, but the first Englishman and the first man in the world to receive a vaccine for Covid: he died in hospital, at the age of 81, after a long illness, therefore not coronavirus.
Bill, as he was nicknamed, made headlines last December 8 when he got a dose of Pfizer at Coventry University Hospital. For reasons of age, he was included in the registry category that was the first to have the right to vaccination against the pandemic in Great Britain, but it was never known whether he was chosen first by pure chance or by virtue of the same name and surname of the Bard of Stratford-upon-Avon, clearly intended to garner media attention and consequently to get as many people as possible to get vaccinated.
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His family members announced today that he died last Thursday after suffering a stroke after being hospitalized in the same hospital where he received the vaccine for other disorders. He leaves behind a wife, two children and several grandchildren. One of them, Emily Shakespeare, who is studying for a doctorate in technology in Ireland, says she is “86 percent sure” that her grandfather was a descendant of Shakespeare, the author of comedies and sonnets that entered the canon of world literature.
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A former Rolls-Royce worker and of proven Labor faith, William Shakespeare was the first to offer the arm for the more than 60 million doses of Pfizer, Astrazeneca or Moderna inoculated so far in the UK: nearly 39 million people have received the first , 22 million already both. A campaign so massive that it has allowed this country to reopen pubs, restaurants and shops, abolishing most of the restrictions, in view of the planned return to full normality on 21 June next.
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