Distributing Pfizer and other COVID vaccines ‘the largest logistics effort in the world since World War II’

After the elation of the first approval of a COVID-19 vaccine comes the realisation that making and testing the vaccine is only the beginning.

The next job is figuring out how to distribute hundreds of millions of doses of the vaccine across the world from the Pfizer manufacturing plants in Europe and the United States.

And this has to be done while keeping the vaccine below -70 degrees Celsius.

In effect, thousands of specially-designed boxes that maintain an internal temperature of Antarctica in winter will have to be transported to places where ice cream melts in the shade and fruit and vegetables regularly arrive at their destination spoiled by heat.

This is no…