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Prince Charles is convinced he’s “way down the list” for the COVID-19 vaccine.

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The 72-year-old British royal and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, paid a visit to the vaccination centre at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital in England on Thursday, where they met with frontline National Health Service workers administering the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.

Speaking to reporters at the facility, Charles, who is first in line to the British throne, revealed he is yet to be vaccinated against the virus and doesn’t anticipate receiving one until the AstraZeneca one is in use.

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“I think I am way down the list and will have to wait,” he affirmed. “I think I’ll have to wait for the AstraZeneca one before it gets to my turn. I’m some way down the list.”

The Prince of Wales tested positive for coronavirus in March and spent the first U.K. lockdown in March in isolation. Charles previously admitted he “got away with it quite lightly” when he contracted the potentially deadly virus.

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Revealing his bout of ill health drove him to do more to “push and shout and prod” when it comes to his campaigning for the natural world, he shared: “It makes me even more determined to push and shout and prod if you see what I mean. Whatever I can do behind the scenes sometimes. I suppose it did partly, I mean I was lucky in my case and got away with it quite lightly.

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“But I’ve had it, and I can so understand what other people have gone through. And I feel particularly for those for instance, who have lost their loved ones and have been unable to be with them at the time. That to me is the most ghastly thing.

“But in order to prevent this happening to so many more people, this is why I’m so determined to find a way out of this,” he concluded. “In order to bring the world and all of us back to the centre, back to understanding what we have to do in relationship to the natural world.”

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Some volunteers who took part in the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine trial reportedly were left feeling like they were boozing heavily the night before after getting the injection.

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A number of volunteers among the 43,500 people from six countries who took part in the phase three trials – some received the experimental vaccine and others got a placebo – said they experienced side effects that felt like a severe hangover, according to multiple reports.

Although volunteers were not told if they received the vaccine or a placebo, some believe they know they were given the real deal based on how they were feeling afterwards.

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Glenn Deshields, 44, of Austin, Tex. was quoted by the New York Post saying he felt like he had a “severe hangover” but those symptoms quickly cleared up. Another volunteer, a woman who identified herself as Carrie, a 45-year-old from Missouri, said she had a fever, headache and body aches after her first injection in September and the symptoms became more severe after the second last month.

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“The thought that we could do something to stop people from suffering from this, from losing family members, that we could get rid of it and get back to some sort of normal in our lives – that’s a driving factor for this for me,” Carrie said, according to Metro UK. “I don’t want anyone else to be sick.”

Pfizer and partner BioNTech announced Monday that the vaccine it was developing showed it was 90% effective against Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. But the vaccine, which could help end the coronavirus pandemic, has still not received government approval anywhere in the world.

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Several other pharmaceutical companies are also working on a vaccine for COVID-19.

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