Britain has started vaccinating people with the Pfizer developed COVID19 vaccine. Its one of the first vaccines to receive approval after clinical trials. Amongst the first to get vaccinated is none other than William Shakespeare.
The 81-year-old from Warwickshire, England received the vaccine at University Hospital Coventry becoming the first man and second person in the world to receive the COVID19 vaccine. Shakespeare was second after Margaret Keenan who turns 91 next week.
Just in case you’re still confused, no the famous playwright did not rise from the grave, this is another living William Shakespeare. I bet he gets a few funny looks at Airports and banks, you have got to love his parents’ sense of humour though.
The Twitterverse obviously seized the chance to have some fun. Here are a few good tweets:
Someone joked about the long-debated issue of whether William Shakespeare the playwright did actually write all the plays himself:
Actually I heard the second person to get the vaccine was Christopher Marlowe but William Shakespeare took all the credit.
— Tiernan Douieb (@TiernanDouieb) December 8, 2020
And others making puns based on the great works of William Shakespeare the playwright:
People are making a big thing about the second man to receive the Covid-19 vaccine being called William Shakespeare, but I think it’s much ado about nothing.
— Amanda (@Pandamoanimum) December 8, 2020
The Taming of the Flu 👏 https://t.co/1Qx86rR8L2
— Metro (@MetroUK) December 8, 2020
This particular user making fun of one of the famous Game of Thrones book series A Song of Ice and Fire which is yet to be completed by author George R.R Martin:
https://twitter.com/BergoEsBueno/status/1336333396016939008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1336333396016939008%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fiharare.com%2Fbritains-william-shakespeare-first-man-get-covid-19-vaccine%2F
And another one:
the second person to have been given a Covid vaccine today is apparently called William Shakespeare and it’s news to me that they were starting with the 400 year olds
— dave ❄️ 🥕 🧻 (@mrdavemacleod) December 8, 2020
