An 82-year-old UK man has become the first person in the world to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine against the CCP virus. Retired maintenance manager Brian Pinker received the vaccine at 7.30 a.m. on Monday just a few hundred metres from where the vaccine was developed by scientists at Oxford University. “I am so pleased to be getting the COVID vaccine today and really proud that it is one that was invented in Oxford,” said Pinker, a kidney dialysis patient who is looking forward to celebrating his 48th wedding anniversary with his wife, Shirley, in February. Trevor Cowlett, an 88-year-old music teacher, was reportedly the second person in the world, bar those who have received it in clinical trials, to get the jab, and Andrew Pollard, the head of the Oxford Vaccine Group and its chief investigator, was the third. The first Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine inoculations come just under a month since …
82-Year-Old UK Man First Person in World to Get Oxford/AstraZeneca Vaccine
January 4, 2021
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