Eric Clapton's vaccine experience

Eric Clapton has described the “severe reactions” he experienced after receiving the AstraZenaca COVID-19 vaccine.

“In February this year … I took the first jab of AZ and straight away had severe reactions which lasted ten days,” the rocker explained in a letter to anti-lockdown activist Robin Monotti Graziadei. “About six weeks later I was offered and took the second AZ shot, but with a little more knowledge of the dangers. Needless to say the reactions were disastrous.”

Clapton went on to detail the various side-effects he experienced. “My hands and feet were either frozen, numb or burning, and pretty much useless for two weeks,” the guitarist confessed. “I feared I would never play again (I suffer with peripheral neuropathy and should never have gone near the needle.)”

Clapton blamed “the propaganda” surrounding the vaccine regarding its safety. The rocker has been vocal in his opposition of the English government and lockdown laws instituted around the coronavirus pandemic.