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A Boston man says he is frustrated after a vaccine mix up over the weekend at a pop-up clinic in the city.
“I still don’t understand how they could make this mistake,” Thelbert Foster, Jr., of Roxbury, said Tuesday.
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After being extremely hesitant to get the COVID vaccine, Foster finally rolled up his sleeve for the first shot Saturday at a pop-up clinic at Ramsay Park run by Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Clinic.
New way to store Pfizer vaccine could ramp up vaccinating teens
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Replay Video UP NEXT With little fanfare, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave Pfizer permission this week to store its COVID-19 vaccine in a typical refrigerator for one month freeing the vaccine from the need to be shipped in cumbersome boxes stuffed with dry ice. Among authorized COVID-19 vaccines, Pfizer s vaccine was notorious for its ultra-cold storage requirements. Now, as the only vaccine authorized for children ages 12 to 17, this new flexibility could dramatically accelerate the effort to vaccinate America s teens and adolescents.
Robin Utrecht/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) With little fanfare, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave Pfizer permission this week to store its COVID-19 vaccine in a typical refrigerator for one month freeing the vaccine from the need to be shipped in cumbersome boxes stuffed with dry ice. Among authorized COVID-19 vaccines, Pfizer's vaccine was notorious for its ultra-cold storage requirements. Now, as the only vaccine authorized for children ages 12 to 17, this new flexibility could dramatically accelerate the effort to vaccinate America's teens and adolescents. "The ability to store Pfizer vaccine in refrigerators for a period of time is great news as this makes the vaccine more readily available to the public because community clinicians like me are able to get, store and deliver vaccinations to help us reach the last mile, have more flexibility in distribution plans and reach areas where vaccines may be harder to access in a timely ma