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United Parcel Service Inc wants to get beyond U.S. doorsteps with a new push into healthcare.
The world’s largest package delivery firm is preparing to test a U.S. service that dispatches nurses to vaccinate adults in their homes, Reuters has learned, as the company and its healthcare clients work to fend off cost pressures and competitive threats from Amazon.com.
UPS did not disclose which vaccines it would be using in the project, but drug and vaccine maker Merck & Co told Reuters it is looking at partnering with the company for the initiative.
[...] Here is how the test, slated to launch later this year, will operate: Workers in UPS’ 1.7 million-square-foot healthcare complex at Worldport will package and ship the vaccine to one of the more 4,700 franchised U.S. UPS stores. A home health nurse contracted by UPS’ clinical trial logistics unit known as Marken will collect the insulated package, transport it the “last mile” to the patient’s home and administer the vaccine, which will target a viral illness in adults.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 25 2019, @12:17PM (5 children)
They shouldn't be just randomly fiddling with the epidemiology of these various viral diseases. They can cause a lot of damage by messing with the susceptible/infected/recovered ratio, even triggering epidemics.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by khallow on Monday March 25 2019, @12:48PM (3 children)
Good thing then that vaccines aren't randomly fiddling, right?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 25 2019, @12:52PM (2 children)
If you have no idea how many people are currently infected, no idea how many are immune, no idea where you are in the seasonal cycle, no idea how fast immunity wanes after vaccine vs wildtype infection, it is basically randomly fiddling.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday March 25 2019, @01:05PM (1 child)
And if you do have such an idea, then it's not.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 25 2019, @01:10PM
They have no idea for the flu, and it gets worse from there.
(Score: 2) by NateMich on Monday March 25 2019, @07:16PM
This is just an alternative method of delivering existing vaccines to existing patients that would have received them anyway (hopefully).
Vaccinating the entire population against certain diseases was already the goal.