In England, William Shakespeare receives a COVID-19 vaccine

LONDON — William Shakespeare from Warwickshire in England was one of the first people to receive the newly approved COVID-19 vaccine outside a clinical trial on Tuesday.

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.

Judging by the photo, he was also administered the vaccine by May Parsons, the Filipina nurse who gave the vaccine to the first recipient outside the clinical studies.

Shakespeare's shot inspired Twitter users, who joked "The Taming of the Flu," "The Two Gentlemen of Corona." Some asked if Margaret Keenan was patient 1A, then was Shakespeare "Patient 2B or not 2B?" — Reuters