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SR: Has the healthcare packaging and processing industry done anything supplier-wise to step up this year to help out with these efforts?
KS: Definitely. I feel like nearly everybody in this industry has really stepped up in some way. There s been tons of overtime and manufacturing and pivoting with modifying machines and things like that. I know
Aphena have opened new facilities with cold chain storage and
Pelican has expanded its deep-frozen line of shippers to meet the needs of these ultra-low temperature products. And
Lifoam was recently awarded patents for its bio-based alternative to traditional EPS packaging Styrofoam–this one’s not so much related specifically to COVID-19, but at the same time, when we talk about how much the entire pharma cold chain is stepping up to meet these needs, we also have to think about how, even if you re not personally shipping vaccines, your cold chain is being affected because there s really o
Funeral homes, morgues grapple with surge in US Covid-19 deaths
By Cindy Loose, Kaiser Health News
Updated 3:52 PM ET, Tue December 15, 2020
Acela Truck Co. has already sold hundreds of pull-behind refrigerated morgues created in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. (KHN)Funeral director Kevin Spitzer has been overwhelmed with Covid-19-related deaths in the small city of Aberdeen, South Dakota.
He and his two colleagues at the Spitzer-Miller Funeral Home are working 12-15 hours a day, seven days a week, to keep up with the demand in the community of 26,000. The funerals are sparsely attended, which would have been unthinkable before the pandemic.