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Future COVID-19 vaccines might not have to be kept so cold
A need for ultra-cold storage limits vaccine availability, but promising new solutions are on the horizon.
ByMaya Wei-Haas
Email
The action was innocent: While cleaning the Veterans Affairs hospital in Boston this past January, a contractor knocked a loose freezer plug from its socket. This simple mistake resulted in the loss of nearly 2,000 doses of Moderna s COVID-19 vaccine that had been chilling inside the unplugged appliance. While that s a small hit on the grand scale of worldwide vaccination, it s emblematic of a much larger issue for many COVID-19 vaccines; they have to be kept frozen.