james bond
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Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech has applied for emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on November 20. However, it has a problem in distribution in that the vaccine has to be kept an ultrafrosty –70° Celsius or -94° Fahrenheit, requiring special storage freezers and shipping containers.
I don't think you can get a freezer like that just anywhere. I wonder if we have to be injected in somewhere cool to cold? We'll have to see if it gets approved.
"That means that even though the vaccine developed by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech is likely to be the first vaccine to reach the finish line in the United States, its adoption may ultimately be limited. The FDA’s committee overseeing vaccines will meet on December 10 to discuss the emergency use request. That meeting will be streamed live on the agency’s web site and YouTube, Facebook and Twitter channels."
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"A similar vaccine developed by Moderna and the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases also requires freezing. But it survives at a balmier –20° C, so can be kept in a standard freezer, and can even be stored at refrigerator temperatures for up to a month.. Most vaccines don’t require freezing at all, but both Pfizer and Moderna’s vaccines are a new type of vaccine for which the low temperatures are necessary to keep the vaccines from breaking down and becoming useless."

Here’s why COVID-19 vaccines like Pfizer’s need to be kept so cold
Both Pfizer and Moderna built their vaccines on RNA. Freezing them keeps their fragile components from breaking down.
