William Shakespeare, 81, was the second person on Tuesday to be administered with the COVID-19 vaccine in the United Kingdom, and the world.
William Shakespeare who is from Warwickshire in England, was one of the first people to receive the newly approved COVID-19 vaccine outside a clinical trial, after 90-year-old Maggie received her jab as the first in the world.
The 81-year-old had the injection at University Hospital Coventry on Tuesday, 20 miles from Stratford-Upon-Avon, the birthplace of his namesake, England’s greatest dramatist and poet.
Following the vaccination William – who goes by Bill to his pals – said: “Groundbreaking, I think, isn’t it?
“It could make the difference to our lives from now on. It’s the start of changing our lives and our lifestyle.”
He added he had been spending lockdown with his wife, and the pair had been “virtually locked down” the entire time – apart from a few trips to the local shops on his wife’s part, but he hadn’t been penning any plays like his namesake.
Social media have been reacting to William Shakespeare receiving his vaccine, as there have been some hilarious comments. See some of them:
A social media user joked: “Love the fact that the 2nd person to have the vaccine was William Shakespeare from Warwickshire. How late am I with “Two Gentlemen of Corona?”
Another tweeter said: “As if the second bloke to get the Covid vaccine is called William Shakespeare from Warwickshire, as if that’s by accident.
“I bet they are searching high and low for an Isaac Newton and an Emmeline Pankhurst. If you’re called Charles Darwin, start rolling your sleeves up.”
Others dubbed Bill’s jab “the taming of the flu” and another quipped: “If Margaret Keenan is patient 1A for the vaccine, would William Shakespeare be 2B, or not 2B …”