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Re: Cobas AM: Nueva Gestora de Francisco García Paramés
que es cierto, esto lo leí ayer en "prensa seria" (el New York Times y el Wall Street Journal), no proviene de los tertulianos que sacan en Tele5 o la Sexta. Pfizer se está encargando de toda la logística hasta el centro de salud donde se vayan a suministrar a las personas.
Creo que no está accesible para todo el mundo los textos; lo copio, cuentan cómo lo están preparando, las vacunas aguantan hasta 10 días en la caja de Pfizer con hielo seco, y lo que tienen que hacer en los hospitales/centros médicos para almacenarlas, que las pueden guardar en el frigorífico:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/business/pfizer-covid-vaccine-coronavirus.html
https://www.wsj.com/articles/pfizer-sets-up-its-biggest-ever-vaccination-distribution-campaign-11603272614
Creo que no está accesible para todo el mundo los textos; lo copio, cuentan cómo lo están preparando, las vacunas aguantan hasta 10 días en la caja de Pfizer con hielo seco, y lo que tienen que hacer en los hospitales/centros médicos para almacenarlas, que las pueden guardar en el frigorífico:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/business/pfizer-covid-vaccine-coronavirus.html
https://www.wsj.com/articles/pfizer-sets-up-its-biggest-ever-vaccination-distribution-campaign-11603272614
Pfizer says it is preparing for distribution in case the vaccine wins authorization, with hundreds of thousands of doses already in the company’s warehouses in the U.S. and Europe.
To make sure its Covid-19 vaccine doses arrive at hospitals and clinics frozen and potent, Pfizer created its own container to ship them.
The temperature-controlled container can store between 1,000 and 5,000 doses for 10 days at minus 70 degrees Celsius before requiring re-icing.
To keep the vaccines safe in transit and to move them fast, Pfizer designed a new reusable container that can keep the vaccine at ultracold temperatures for up to 10 days and hold between 1,000 and 5,000 doses. The suitcase-sized boxes, which are packed with dry ice and tracked by GPS, will enable Pfizer to avoid the larger, temperature-controlling containers used in transportation, giving it more flexibility to ship the vaccines faster since planes and trucks won’t have to wait for the standard refrigerated metal boxes.
Pfizer expects to load those boxes on a combined 24 trucks a day from Kalamazoo and Puurs that will move roughly 7.6 million doses daily to airports.
To make sure its Covid-19 vaccine doses arrive at hospitals and clinics frozen and potent, Pfizer created its own container to ship them.
The temperature-controlled container can store between 1,000 and 5,000 doses for 10 days at minus 70 degrees Celsius before requiring re-icing.
To keep the vaccines safe in transit and to move them fast, Pfizer designed a new reusable container that can keep the vaccine at ultracold temperatures for up to 10 days and hold between 1,000 and 5,000 doses. The suitcase-sized boxes, which are packed with dry ice and tracked by GPS, will enable Pfizer to avoid the larger, temperature-controlling containers used in transportation, giving it more flexibility to ship the vaccines faster since planes and trucks won’t have to wait for the standard refrigerated metal boxes.
Pfizer expects to load those boxes on a combined 24 trucks a day from Kalamazoo and Puurs that will move roughly 7.6 million doses daily to airports.
The company plans to take cargo space on an average of 20 flights a day on planes operated by FedEx Corp. , United Parcel Service Inc. and DHL International GmbH to fly the vaccines as close as possible to vaccination centers, ranging from big medical facilities to far-flung hospitals. The air carriers are also in line to handle the next leg of the vaccine’s journey, trucking the doses to sites close to where they will be administered.
Total delivery time, from distribution center to point of use, is expected to be an average of three days, the company said.
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Pfizer is making the vaccine at facilities in Kalamazoo, Mich., and Puurs, Belgium. The doses distributed in the United States will mostly come from Kalamazoo.
In Kalamazoo, vaccines will go into vials (five doses per vial). Vials will go into trays (195 vials per tray). Trays will go into specially designed cooler-type boxes (up to five trays per box). Pfizer plans to have about 100,000 of the coolers by the end of this month and more than double that total by March.
The reusable boxes, each toting between 1,000 and 5,000 doses and stuffed with dry ice, are equipped with GPS-enabled sensors. Pfizer employees will be able to monitor the boxes’ locations and temperatures as FedEx and UPS transport them to hospitals and
The boxes “will have eyes on them at all times,” Ms. Alcorn said.
Representatives of UPS and FedEx said they had been planning to play a major role in distributing vaccines and were ready to go.
Once the Pfizer coolers reach their destinations, hospitals or pharmacies will have a few choices of how to store the vaccine. The easiest option is using ultracold freezers, but not many sites have them. Otherwise, the facilities can stash the trays in conventional freezers for up to five days. Or they can keep the vials in the cooler for up to 15 days, so long as they replenish the dry ice and don’t open it more than twice a day.