One vaccine and covid wiped me out - please get your second when you can Political Editor Liam Thorp fell ill with covid just as he was due his second jab, he says everyone should want to avoid what followed I have a habit for bad timing, just ask my friends, family and of course, my bosses. But my timing was particularly poor last weekend when I fell ill with Covid-19 the day before I was due to get my second rather crucial vaccination. Of course I couldn't go along for my jab after developing a cough and a fever and while my first couple of Lateral Flow tests were negative, the third told me what I already knew to be true, I had been struck down with the virus.