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Today’s William ‘Bill’ Shakespeare of Warwickshire was the second person in the world to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against the coronavirus last December. The man, who at the time was in a ward for the vulnerable at Coventry University Hospital, died this week of a stroke, which was not related to the corona jab.
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The Briton William Shakespeare, who was one of the first in the world to receive the corona vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech, passed away on May 25, 2021.
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Presenter Noelia Novillo, however, assumed that the acclaimed playwright behind classic plays such as Macbeth, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello and King Lear had died. “We have news that has left us all dumbfounded, given the greatness of this man,” said the newsreader for Argentine pay channel Canal 26. “As we all know, he is one of the most important writers in the English language – for me the master,” Novillo praised as images of contemporary Bill Shakespeare were played.
The hilarity on social media was not long in coming. “There were only a few years between the two,” said one tweeter. “Let us not mourn William Shakespeare,” wrote another. “He has lived his life and has been loved by men for centuries.” “What a fuss about William Shakespeare,” said another commenter. “What they didn’t report was that he was in such bad shape that he hadn’t delivered a hit in ages. Overrated.”
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