William Shakespeare, Second Person to Receive COVID Jab in UK Dies As he was a patient at University Hospitals Coventry's frailty ward, he received his first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab on December 8, 2020 | 27 May 2021 12:35 PM GMT London: William Shakespeare, an 81-year-old man, who became the second person in the United Kingdom to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, died of an unrelated illness. Sources said that he died of a stroke. As he was a patient at University Hospitals Coventry's frailty ward, he received his first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab on December 8, 2020. He had gain...