He died at the Royal Stoke University Hospital on Friday. Father-to-be Marcus Birks, 40, has died from Covid in hospital after admitting that he regretted 'putting off' his Covid vaccinationMarcus, a musician from Leek, Staffordshire had been sceptical about Covid vaccinations and thought that he could not get ill because he ate healthily and exercised five times a week. In an interview from his hospital bed on August 11, he said his condition had come as a shock because he rarely got ill. 'If you haven't been ill, you don't think you're going to get ill, so you listen to the [anti-vaccine] stuff,' he told the BBC. Marcus was once signed to the Most Wanted band and also appeared in Bad Lads' Army and Popstars: The Rivals on TV.

Source: The Nation August 29, 2021 19:18 UTC