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On Dec. 8, 2020, a 90-year-old woman sat in a high-backed chair at the University Hospital in Coventry, U.K., and entered the history books.
Her name was Margaret Keenan and, on that chilly Tuesday, she became the first person on the planet to receive a vaccination for Covid-19. Asked for a comment from the BBC, Keenan—due to turn 91 the following week—said that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine she’d just received was the “best early birthday present.”
In a broader sense, that media-saturated needle prick in Coventry was also a very fine present for Pfizer
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