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I just heard that the vaccine is impractical is it needs -70C for storage.

• genidoi 6y ago
  The pandemic is orders of magnitude more impractical than a end-to-end -70C logistics chain.
• thelastname 6y ago
  That's a fake news. It's -80C.
  • bajsejohannes 6y ago
    A slightly wrong number is not "fake news".
    • mxcrossb 6y ago
      He was being sarcastic
  • _Microft 6y ago
    So "fake news" is what we say for "wrong" nowadays? I am getting old as it seems. Pfizer expects the vaccine to be good for up to one week at -8°C to +2°C, so the difference in stability or storage life at -70°C or -80°C might be a small issue compared to what difference it makes on the requirements on the continuous cold chain. It sounds like using dry ice might be a 90/10 solution, as Michael Seibel would call it: get 90% of the result with 10% of the effort.