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U.S. meatpacker Smithfield Foods offers to store COVID-19 vaccines in ultra-cold freezers – National Post
CHICAGO — Smithfield Foods, the world’s biggest pork processor, said on Thursday it had offered to help U.S. health officials distribute COVID-19 vaccines and…
CHICAGO Smithfield Foods, the worlds biggest pork processor, said on Thursday it had offered to help U.S. health officials distribute COVID-19 vaccines and store them in ultra-cold freezers that are in high demand to support a public vaccination campaign.
U.S. states, cities and hospitals are scrambling to buy freezers that can safely store Pfizers COVID-19 vaccine at temperatures of minus 70 Celsius (minus 94 Fahrenheit), significantly below the standard for vaccines.
Modernas vaccine can be stored…
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