looking absolutely stunning this morning. you have been telling us a little bit about the hospital and the work they have been doing. yeah, rood the work they have been doing. yeah, good morning- the work they have been doing. yeah, good morning- we the work they have been doing. yeah, good morning. we are the work they have been doing. yeah, good morning. we are live the work they have been doing. yeah, good morning. we are live at - good morning. we are live at coventry hospital this morning. we thought we would try to show you where the rubber hits the road. this is an orthopaedic ward. it has been a busy night here in the hospital. it is about to be a shift changeover. this is the nurse s station. louise is here. she started her shift at 7:30pm last night. about to finish. a busy night for louise, so the last thing she needs is a camera being shoved in her face! let s find out how it s going, with professor richard king, orthopaedic consultant. good morning. thank you for b
on and the decisions that what s going to happen because of their decision. and this is on the corridor outside the room where it all happened. and i don t think there s any patients in there at the minute, so shall we go in? yes. i m sure you can remember exactly where it happened, the pair of you. it s very weird, isn t it? this is like a quiet corner of the hospital. and on that day in december, you know, the whole world was watching on that day. we were happy to kind of take them with us. yeah, that s true, yeah. you think about all the many millions of people in the uk that have been vaccinated since you were number one patient number one. in there. more than 50 million, maggie, from that day. you can t get your head around that, can you? i mean, it s incredible. i can t believe it, honestly. yeah. i don t know if, you know, but may got invited out to dinner on that day as well is that right? yeah! 0h, yay! someone rang the hospital. what happened to me? yes, did you get inv
on that day, watching you it felt like a really big step forward for everybody in the united kingdom and around the world as well. so to sit here and talk to you now, today, a few months on, and see you both doing so well, is fantastic. thank you. it s my pleasure. it s my pleasure, it s my pleasure indeed. it s nice to chat. it s my pleasure. what a lovely lady. maggie keenan and may parsons. may will be live with their september state this morning. alongside the chief executive of the hospital as well. and we will hear plenty more from margaret later. she is 91 now. as she was where she was like working in a localjewellery store until she was 86. we are on the roof of the hospital. the vaccination centre is actually in the car park. we are going to be live in there this morning. that is fully working and operational. they have given out so manyjabs from their base in
in terms of the international interest after that jab back in december, what has that been like for both of you? do you talk about that? i had a letterfrom somebody, which i thought was really lovely. the words she s written at the bottom of the letter was, what a courageous lady? aw. and that was just it. and i thought, well, you know, she thought, i ve done something really good. i didn tjust do it for me. why would i do it for me? i did it for everybody around. both of you will know there will be people watching this, thinking, that s great, but i don t want to have the jab. i mean, do you have a message for them, who might be seeing this? oh, yes, yes, yes. whatever you thought before, please do have the jab. there s nothing to it. don t be afraid of a needle just to save your life and to save other lives. please have it done. the people that we re getting in the hospital recently, that are hospitalised, are not vaccinated, and i think we need to be able to tell those people th
at 6:31 this morning, a grandmother in a donated christmas sweater, made history. the world famous maggie keenan. lovely to see you. here you are on the wall of the hospital as well. i cannot believe sometimes, you know. at the time, did it feel as momentous, as important as does probably looking back now? oh, yes, it did. it did feel very important at the time. and you re quite famous now, maggie? people are happy for me, you know. so come with us. maggie may. yes, maggie may. where s rod stewart when you need him? exactly. i don t know. we re all waiting for him to come. you ve got this, you know, this beautiful bond now, which is not only between you two, but i suppose between everybody who watched that day as well. that s true. yes, that s true, yes. and it s nice, because i think now we re a family. i know. sort of like bonded with that one. and i think sometimes it s