In a segment on CNN yesterday (December 19), Dr. Anthony Fauci told children that he went to the North Pole to personally give Santa the Covid-19 vaccine.
The aim of the segment was to teach young children about the coronavirus, and saw Fauci, America's leading infectious disease expert, answer some questions posed by kids.
Most of the questions centered around the man from the North Pole - whether he had received his vaccination and if it was safe for him to drop by their houses for Christmas and deliver their presents.
This is the moment Dr. Fauci tells a group of kids that he went to the North Pole to give Santa the Covid-19 vaccine:One of the children who asked Dr. Fauci about Santa's vaccine status was eight-year-old Lucy from San Rafael, California. She asked: "How did Santa get the vaccine, and is it safe for him to go in the house?"
An equally concerned nine-year-old boy, Connor from Mount Holly, New Jersey, asked: "How can Santa Claus safely give out presents with Covid-19 spreading everywhere?"
Similarly, Paxton, 6, from Geneva, Illinois asked: "Will Santa still be able to visit me in coronavirus season [sic]. What if he cannot go to anyone's house?"
In response to the children's questions about Santa's immunity to Covid-19, Dr. Fauci revealed that he had actually vaccinated the man himself following a trip to the North Pole.
"Well, I have to say I took care of that for you because I was worried that you all would be upset," he said. "So what I did a little while ago, I took a trip up there to the North Pole. I went there and I vaccinated Santa Claus myself."
He added: "I measured his level of immunity, and he is good to go. He can come down the chimney, he can leave the presents, he can leave and you have nothing to worry about. Santa Claus is good to go."
At the time of writing, there have been 17,679,645 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the US and 316, 298 confirmed deaths in the country, per the Johns Hopkins University.