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News anchor errs by just about 400 years, confusing the famous bard with a British man with the same name who died last week of an illness unrelated to the shot
Bill Shakespeare, one of the first people in the U.K. to receive Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine upon its emergency approval, has died of a stroke, the country's National Health Service confirmed to the BBC.
William Shakespeare, first man in the U.K. to receive COVID-19 vaccine, has died of a stroke at 81 By Caitlin O Kane 90-year-old first to receive Pfizer vaccine in U.K.
William Shakespeare – the 81-year-old man who became the second person in the U.K. to receive a COVID-19 vaccine – has died.
Shakespeare, who goes by Bill, died of a stroke, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust said, according to BBC News.
In December, Shakespeare became the first man to receive a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, following 91-year-old Margaret Keenan, the first person in the country to get the shot. It could make a difference to our lives from now on, couldn t it? he said at the time. It s started changing our lives and our lifestyle.