https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/28/william-shakespeare-death-mistake-argentinian-tv
Newsreader confuses Bill Shakespeare, 81, ‘the first man to get the coronavirus vaccine’ with ‘one of the most important writers in the English language’
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In what can only be described as a comedy of errors, an Argentinian TV news channel delivered a stunning, if slightly flawed, scoop on Thursday night when it reported that William Shakespeare, “one of the most important writers in the English language” had died five months after receiving the Covid vaccine.
The gaffe of, well, Shakespearean proportions happened after Noelia Novillo, a newsreader on Canal 26, mixed up the Bard with William “Bill” Shakespeare, an 81-year-old Warwickshire man who became the second person in the world to get the Pfizer vaccine.
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Argentinian TV reports death of Shakespeare after Covid jab
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Re: Argentinian TV reports death of Shakespeare after Covid jab
ursaminortaur wrote:
The gaffe of, well, Shakespearean proportions happened after Noelia Novillo, a newsreader on Canal 26, mixed up the Bard with William “Bill” Shakespeare, an 81-year-old Warwickshire man who became the second person in the world to get the Pfizer vaccine.[/i]
Point of order M'Lud...
No he wasn't! Loads of people were given the Pfizer vaccine in the safety trials before Mr Shakespeare. He was just the second person to get it at the start of the official UK vaccine programme. I'm still not sure why this is so notable when the first person to really get it in the trials has been totally ignored by the media. Just another of my many hobby horses.
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