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Vaccine storage issues could leave 3 billion people without access – The Japan Times

Low income people around the world who were among the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic are also likely to be the last to recover from it.

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GAMPELA, Burkina Faso – The chain breaks here, in a tiny medical clinic in Burkina Faso that went nearly a year without a working refrigerator.
From factory to syringe, the worlds most promising coronavirus vaccine candidates need nonstop sterile refrigeration to stay potent and safe. But despite enormous strides in equipping developing countries to maintain the vaccine “cold chain, nearly 3 billion of the worlds 7.8 billion people live where temperature-controlled storage is insufficient for a…

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