UPS has surpassed delivery of one billion Covid-19 vaccine doses – and used more than three million pounds of dry ice to help safely move the vaccines.
An army of pilots, delivery drivers and pharmacists last month started to ship, distribute and administer millions of
vaccine doses. The small vials are traveling on airplanes and trucks, and some times inside of specially made hand-held coolers.
So far, two vaccines have been cleared by the Food and
Drug Administration for emergency use in the U.S.: those by Pfizer-BioNtech and Moderna. Several other drugmakers also have agreements to provide their vaccines to the federal government once they are approved. AstraZeneca s vaccine, developed with Oxford University, was just approved for emergency use in the U.K. but is still in clinical trials in the U.S.
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Concerns that there would be a shortage of dry ice to support new coronavirus vaccines that require storage at ultra-cold temperatures have receded in recent weeks, logistics executives involved in pharmaceutical supply chains say.
Experts as recently as last month said there already is a shortage of dry ice a solid form of carbon dioxide to meet global demand for vaccine protection as well as increased food shipments, compounded by inadequate amounts of liquid CO2 because refiners are producing less ethanol and a byproduct of gasoline since fewer people are driving. Liquid nitrogen for cryogenic freezers is also in short supply.