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Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote... by yreg on Monday November 09, 2020 @01:09PM (#25037662)
It will be an incredible challenge, but there is at least some economy of scale on our side.

Wendover did a nice video[0] on this topic month ago, explaining how UPS/FedEx/DHL/… are already massively upscaling their cold chain infrastructure. Retrofitting planes, building giant freezers in transport hubs.

[0] The Greatest Logistics Challenge Ever - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byW1GExQB84

Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote... by localhost on Monday November 09, 2020 @09:05PM (#25042157)
Thanks for sharing this. I learned a lot from watching this video and I have another channel to subscribe to now :)

One thing that I found interesting was how they identified today's announcement of the BNT162b2 vaccine candidate (back in September) as one that would require the massive investment in cold chain infrastructure. They also highlight Pfizer's engineering of a separate series of cold boxes that would keep the vaccine at temperature for up to 10 days, thereby enabling it to be shipped through standard logistics networks. Great stuff.