Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla responded to a 6-year-old boy from Ireland who asked the company to prioritize Santa Claus and his elves in their COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan.
The Irish Examiner reported that Callum Thornhill of Glanmire wrote to the company urging them to “please send some [vaccine] to the North Pole for Santa Claus and his elves. Please.”
His mother, Paula Lineham, told the newspaper that a letter from one of the company’s local offices in response made her son’s Christmas.
“We contacted Santa Claus to offer our help and he assured us that he, Mrs. Claus, Rena and all the Elves are keeping well and safe,” said a letter from a Pfizer Ringaskiddy site leader. .
Included in the package was a small Christmas gift: an art kit.
Pfizer’s CEO also responded to Callum and the other child who wrote for the company in a LinkedIn post.
“I want you to know that we are doing everything we can to help bring hope to people around the world. And we will make sure to take care of Santa Claus and his elves too ”, wrote Bourla.
The vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech was the first to be released for emergency use in the United States and the United Kingdom earlier this month. The vaccine has already started to be distributed and administered to Americans.
A Moderna vaccine was also released for emergency use in the days that followed.
The vaccine’s launch comes at a time when the United States and the United Kingdom are reporting some of the highest levels of new COVID-19 infections and deaths since the pandemic began, forcing many locations to increase restrictions on public life in the environment. of the holiday season.