Apart from anything else there's something that's really confusing me. They keep saying that it's a logistical nightmare and will be really hard to administer in care homes etc because it needs to be stored at something like -80. But doesn't it last for almost a week in a standard fridge? So why can't a week's supply be transported to care homes, doctors, pharmacies etc?
I think it was something to do with it being distributed in packs of 975 doses. So as part of getting it to care homes, they’re going to have to find a way of safely splitting the packs into smaller batches, which can then be stored in fridges for a few days before being given.
It says in the papers that each site For administrating the vaccine will open 8am to 8pm 7days a week and hope to do a thousand vaccines in that week,that seems to me quite a low number. .
What’s starting to worry me is, and bearing in mind that as a country, our response to Covid has little short of disastrous, how come we won the ‘race’ to secure the the vaccine first. And in that race, how come there’s not a country coming a close second. Has the UK become the world’s stalking horse?
The reasoning I've seen is that the vaccine loses stability and therefore viability the more it passes through different temperatures in the logistics chain to end destination.
Isn't there 3 different vaccines? One requires -70, one requires around freezing and one require fridge temperatures?
What @leythtyke said. I believe all care home staff will be in the first tranche, effectively making care homes safer (but still no visitors). But residents will likely have to wait for the next vaccine as its more stable.
i'm wondering why it needs such low temps and degrades so quickly given as soon as it hits your body it going to get heated right up... you would think body temp would just obliterate it. shame vanilla covid doesnt die off in owt less than -70
