May Parsons calls on people to get vaccinated and describes ‘heartbreaking’ conversations with people on their death beds who regret missing jabs for flu and Covid

The NHS nurse who delivered the world’s first Covid-19 jab has called on families not to forget how lifesaving vaccines can be.

Five years ago today May Parsons administered the first vaccine outside of clinical trials to Maggie Keenan. Back then at the height of the pandemic vaccines saved the country from perpetual lockdowns and there was a clamour for everyone to get one.

Since then vaccine uptake for Covid-19 and flu has plummeted and May is speaking out to urge people not to get “complacent” with their lives. It comes as Britain is braced for its worst flu season on record . May described how she has seen patients on t

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