Remember last winter/spring an issue with getting “shots in arms” was the vials had to be stored at crazy low temps that regular freezers simply can’t attain?
A student of mine (nursing student) was volunteering at a government run vax site and she told me how she would always have trouble getting the right amount of doses out of the freezer as they had to thaw for 30 minutes and then wouldn’t be good for too long after thawing so if the right amount weren’t ready for the correct amount of people they would be short/have to wait or end up with discards. The freezers and this process were a news item of the time.
The vaxxes are the same, the vials are the same, why can anyone get a Covid jab at any damn pharmacy I saw someone getting one when I was picking up something for my kid and they just pulled it out of a fridge, not even the freezer, no thawing, no waiting, just pull and jab.
So, what about those super special ultra cold freezers?
Ha! Since May, it has been permissable to store in the fridge for 1 month. https://www.fda.gov/media/150386/download
So what changed exactly? Was this all to create artificial scarcity at the beginning so those desperate to get it would be even more desperate? It just feels like an aspect that went away, was swept under the rug, and no one seems to think “oh that’s weird”.
Exactly.