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How Pfizer plans to keep its vaccine at subarctic temperatures during transport - CBS News

How Pfizer plans to keep its vaccine at subarctic temperatures during transport - CBS News

How Pfizer plans to keep its vaccine at subarctic temperatures during transport - CBS News
Nov 21, 2020 36 secs

About 25 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine may become available in December, 30 million in January and 35 million more in February and March, according to information presented to the National Academy of Medicine this week.

CBS News got an inside look at the logistical challenges of getting Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine to the public, including a required storage temperature you would find in the coldest places on Earth.

Each "cool box" contains a minimum of about 1,000 vaccine doses, which poses a challenge for rural communities with no place to store them.

Frontline health care workers will be among the first to get the vaccine, but according to a recent Gallup Poll, only 58% of Americans said they would get it when offered to the general public

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