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Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => COVID-19 => Topic started by: nudephil on 02/12/2020 17:52:08
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Patricia sent us this idea:
Would it be possible to use ice cream vans, some of which I believe use dry ice (carbon dioxide at about -78 C) to set up 'mobile' vaccination stations to speed up delivery of the Pfizer vaccine?
Any thoughts?
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Delivering bulk quantities of vaccine isn't the problem, even if "-80 degrees" makes cheap headlines.
You need to bring small quantities up to room temperature, load syringes, test each patient for existing infection, check the patients' paperwork, inject the vaccine, safely dispose of the syringe, transfer the data to the patient record, dispose of the vial, issue new paperwork (for the second injection), then monitor the patient for at least 10 minutes and be prepared for the occasional allergic reaction. Plus you need to keep the patients separated from each other.
Delivering bulk chemicals at any temperature is an everyday industry. Mass vaccination is a whole new ball game.
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Patricia sent us this idea:
Would it be possible to use ice cream vans, some of which I believe use dry ice (carbon dioxide at about -78 C) to set up 'mobile' vaccination stations to speed up delivery of the Pfizer vaccine?
Any thoughts?
My thought is that Patricia, like most intelligent people, reads "Private Eye". Page 31 of the latest issue, has a superb cartoon of a "Mr Pricky" van delivering vaccines to the populace.