Blog Posts | Pfizer vaccineThe “very specific” requirements for handling this particular vaccine are also already frustrating health officials. CNN reports that Pfizer’s vaccine needs to be stored at minus 75 degrees Celsius — about 50 degrees colder than any vaccine currently used in the U.S. — and doctors’ offices, pharmacies and state labs don’t have freezers that go that low. Meanwhile, dry ice — which has been in high demand thanks to an increase in home food deliveries and in low supply owing to decreased production of carbon dioxide, a by-product of fossil-fuel combustion — could become a critical but hard-to-come-by component in the distribution process.https://www.yahoo.com/?fr=yset_chr_syc_hp&extInst=1 |