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Pfizer vaccine doesn't need ultra-cold storage after all, company says:
In a bit of good news, Pfizer and BioNTech announced today that their highly effective COVID-19 vaccine does not require ultra-cold storage conditions after all and can be kept stable at standard freezer temperatures for two weeks.
The companies have submitted data to the US Food and Drug Administration demonstrating the warmer stability in a bid for regulatory approval to relax storage requirements and labeling for the vaccine.
If the FDA greenlights the change, the warmer storage conditions could dramatically ease vaccine distribution, allowing doses to be sent to non-specialized vaccine administration sites. The change would also make it much easier to distribute the vaccine to low-income countries.
"We have been continuously performing stability studies to support the production of the vaccine at commercial scale, with the goal of making the vaccine as accessible as possible for healthcare providers and people across the US and around the world," Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said in a statement. "If approved, this new storage option would offer pharmacies and vaccination centers greater flexibility in how they manage their vaccine supply."
Also at www.pfizer.com
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 22 2021, @04:06PM (6 children)
We couldn't wait because a bunch of assholes decided masks were stupid.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 22 2021, @04:25PM (4 children)
And now they think vaccines are stupid. What else ya got?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 22 2021, @05:10PM (1 child)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 22 2021, @07:41PM
And that no nuclear plants shut down in Texas because the sensors for the cooling water supply froze. Or that those same plants don’t have to shut down when the cooling water supply gets too hot to quickly shut it down in an emergency,
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 22 2021, @05:49PM
Me? Nothing. I'm just trying to figure out where I should go to get signed up for a vaccine appointment.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 22 2021, @08:08PM
They always thought vaccines are stupid. The quicker the Darwin themselves out of existence the better. In the meantime, they don’t want the vaccine? Fine, more for those with brains composed of a single cell that died of loneliness some time before the 2016 election.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 24 2021, @07:16AM
Masks are stupid and they do fuck all. It is a convenient scapegoat for your cognitive dissonance, but the masks don't stop the spread. You can come up with ever more creative reason as to why the lockdowns are never going to end, but those who already saw through the bullshit won't take the same ride.
For the record, everyone I know thinks the masks are stupid, but they do wear them to be polite to the unhinged ones who have a nuclear meltdown if you don't wear one. I just look forward to ever more ludicrous "precautions" that these authoritarians conjure up to both humiliate the masses and show them who is in charge. What's next? Two masks? Oh we already here. 4 masks? Sure. Anal probing checkpoint? Why not.