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The situation was dire. As the pandemic raged in March, some COVID-19 patients in Milan were going into septic shock, and their blood pressure was perilously low.
A California drug company wanted to ship emergency medication to those patients, but commercial flights to Italy had been drastically scaled back. So it called PCI Pharma Services, a Philadelphia company that specializes in packaging and shipping drugs around the world. It took nearly a week, but PCI secured permits and arranged for courier jets, drivers and trains to deliver the drugs to Milan.
“That day when the drug arrived, six people were saved,” said Salim Haffar, PCI’s chief executive.
Cold storage, crucial to COVID-19 vaccine, has caught Wall Street’s attention
As countries prepare to distribute millions of COVID-19 vaccines some of which require storage as cold as the South Pole in winter the highly specialized operations are in heavy demand. Wall Street is rushing to grab a piece of the action. New York Times December 18, 2020 / 08:15 AM IST
The temperature on a freezer reads -69 degrees Celsius as workers move boxes containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to be shipped at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant in Michigan, United States on December 13, 2020. (Image: AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool)
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