William Shakespeare Gets Pfizer Vaccine Shot

The shot inspired Twiter 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?’

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William Shakespeare receives the COVID-19 vaccine at University Hospital in Coventry on Tuesday.

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

The iconic English dramatist William Shakespeare’s thoughts in the classic tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, must be going through his namesake’s mind in Warwickshire.

But this 81-year-old Britisher was definitely not shaken by the instant fame that his name triggered. This ‘Bard’ was definitely not barred from inoculating himself against the dreaded coronavirus.

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 Straford-Upon-Avon, the birthplace of his namesake, England’s greatest dramatist and poet.

Shakespeare’s shot inspired Twiter 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?”.