oann.com/ups-eyes-in-home-health-services-with-u-s-vaccine-project
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: 2) by DannyB on Monday March 25 2019, @03:25PM (2 children)
A more brillianter idea!
UPS drops off a box. When the anti-vaxxer picks it up, a needle is forced out through the cardboard, instantly vaccinating the person who picks up the package.
What could go wrong?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 25 2019, @05:16PM (1 child)
Unfortunately they have no vacine for stupidity.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday March 25 2019, @09:14PM
Sure they do: one dose of Vitamin L at high speed, administered intercranially. Problem is, the side effects almost invariably include death.
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