re: Alabama Basketball Megathread | 26-7 (16-2)

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We’d better hope someone else’s vaccine comes thru.

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Absolutely. The only way we are going to return to normalcy anytime soon is if at least one or two more of the vaccines currently in their final stages of testing end up being viable for distribution.

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Pfizer’s has to be stored in an ultra cold freezer at -90F. Not even most large research and teaching hospitals are equipped with such a freezer. Pfizer developed a storage and shipping container using dry ice but it only comes in one size and holds 975 vaccines. Your local CVS ain’t going to want to invest in 975 of these hoping to use them before they go bad. You can store it at refrigerator temperature for just 5 days.

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I think this is common to all mRNA vaccines, which is unfortunate because they're also the easiest ones to rapidly produce in enormous quantities. Moderna's vaccine, which is also expected to be viable, is mRNA based as well.