ISU lab freezers help store vaccine for Southeastern Idaho Public Health
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Courtesy of Idaho State University
POCATELLO — The recently approved and now-being-distributed COVID-19 vaccine demands a holding temperature of -70 degrees Celsius.
That demand has given purpose to ISU’s relatively new laboratory freezers.
Idaho State University’s department of biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences owns the freezers, which can store substances at -86 degrees Celsius. The were purchased early in 2020.
But now, with a new freezer purchased by Southeastern Idaho Public Health not scheduled to arrive until January, ISU will hold southeast Idaho’s allotment of the vaccine as it is being administered.