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V Is for Vaccine: CNN and Sesame Street Host Town Hall Encouraging Kids Ages 5 to 11 to Get Vaccinated
A play-by-play of Sesame Street’s town hall event on CNN.
by Beth Baisch, The Post Millenial
November 6, 2021
As the COVID-19 vaccine begins to be administered to children as young as 5-years-old, CNN hosted a town hall with the beloved inhabitants of Sesame Street to encourage children to get vaccinated.
“The ABCs of COVID Vaccines,” hosted by CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta and journalist Erica Hill, opened with 5-year-old monster Rosita excitedly telling her friends how she just got her first dose of the COVID vaccine.
This led to scripted questions from 6-year-old Big Bird, whose Granny Bird wants him to get the shot.
The rest of the show went as follows:
The mic is then handed off to Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, who helped develop a COVID vaccine, who fielded several questions from children, describing the vaccine’s ingredients to one as “a message wrapped in a ball of fat” that tells the body how to fight COVID.
A father asks how parents can be certain children are getting the correct dose of the vaccine, and is simply told by “the color of the vial.”
Does Big Bird’s granny have a crush on the Surgeon General? pic.twitter.com/kLY4xjYqgE
— Beth Baisch 📸 (@BethBaisch) November 6, 2021
Sesame Street's Elmo abandons the clown costume he was wearing at the start of CNN's vaccine special for children, and dresses up as Sanjay Gupta instead. pic.twitter.com/YbBuyo8uu7
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) November 6, 2021
By the end of the special, Big Bird has been given his first COVID shot, and Elmo has a new favorite thing to dress as: Dr. Sanjay Gupta. The special closes with Elmo, in his Gupta costume, whispering “Elmo loves you” to the viewers.
Sesame Street's Elmo abandons the clown costume he was wearing at the start of CNN's vaccine special for children, and dresses up as Sanjay Gupta instead. pic.twitter.com/YbBuyo8uu7
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) November 6, 2021
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