Coventry nurse who gave world's first Covid jab outside trials says 'it changed my life'

Propelled into prominence by COVID-19, this is what May Parsons would say to her younger self.

In 2020, the images of May Parsons becoming the first individual globally to administer the COVID-19 vaccine to a patient outside of a clinical trial became an emblem of hope worldwide.

Scientists had been in a race against time to develop a vaccine that could save lives, shield frontline emergency workers like May, and halt the spread of the highly contagious coronavirus that had brought the world to a halt.

It was a period of dread and uncertainty, and May had no inkling that the simple act of leading by example and performing a job she has loved for over three decades was about to transform her life.

After delivering the first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to Margaret Keenan at Uni