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A year has passed since the UK became the first western country to license a vaccine against Covid

First Man in World to Receive Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine Publicly Dies of Unrelated Illness The first man to get publicly vaccinated for COVID-19 in the world died of an unrelated illness about six months after receiving the jab, according to multiple reports. William Shakespeare died of a stroke on May 20, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust told the BBC. The 81-year-old man died at the same medical center in Coventry where he remained as a patient. He received both doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab in early December, shortly after 91-year-old Margaret Keenan, the first woma...

Half of U.S. states have fully vaccinated at least 50% of adults, CDC says Nelson Oliveira May 24, 2021, 8:07 AM Five months after a New York City nurse became the first person in America to get a coronavirus shot, at least 25 states are now reporting that more than half of their adult population has been fully vaccinated — a major milestone in the fight against COVID-19. Data published Sunday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that Washington, D.C. has also fully vaccinated at least 50% of people 18 or older and that Maine’s 62.9% rate of fully vaccinated adults...

A world-first clinical trial into covid vaccine booster jabs has been launched...

MORE than 600,000 appointments for a lifesaving Covid jab were booked in just 48 hours after the NHS vaccination programme was opened up to people in their thirties. Those aged 38 and 39 have been able to arrange a jab through the National Booking Service since Thursday. Since then, 611,863 first and second dose appointments have been booked at a NHS Vaccination Centre or local pharmacy-led vaccination service Younger people in their thirties are expected to be invited over the next few days and weeks. The surge in bookings comes as more than two thirds of people aged 50 and over ha...