‘There are so many supply chain issues’: Some Massachusetts hospitals are borrowing ultra-cold freezers; others say they don’t need them
Updated Dec 22, 2020;
Posted Dec 22, 2020
Boston Medical Center made history Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, when it became the first hospital in Massachusetts to receive a shipment of nearly 2,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine. (Adam Knee/Boston Medical Center)
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With now two coronavirus vaccines en route to Massachusetts, a number of state hospitals still don’t have ultra-cold freezers needed to store the Pfizer/BioNTech immunizations, prompting some to borrow storage units from neighboring facilities.
In Western Massachusetts, Berkshire Medical Center has already borrowed two of the ultra-cold freezers while staff wait for an order of storage supplies to arrive.