Moderna Vaccine Frozen

It has been suggested that pfizer s vaccine could end up going to cities and moderna s vaccine could end up going to less.

Moderna vaccine frozen. Both the moderna and pfizer vaccine candidates are frozen. The vaccines don t have to stay frozen right up to the time of. Moderna has said that its vaccine needs to be frozen too but only at minus 20 celsius more like a regular freezer. The moderna vaccine is a much more viable option for low and middle income countries than the pfizer vaccine said ms rachel silverman a washington based policy fellow at the centre for global.

If push comes to shove you can use ice cream and frozen food storage for the moderna vaccine but that will not cut it for the pfizer vaccine nagarkatti said. Most vaccines don t require freezing at all but both pfizer and moderna s vaccines are a new type of vaccine for which the low temperatures are necessary to keep the vaccines from breaking. Since there will be limited vaccine doses at first immunization managers across the country will need to have plans to distribute any and all vaccine doses that are available. Initial clinical tests were effective for a covid 19 vaccine candidate from moderna with the vaccine having far easier storage requirements than one from pfizer that needs to be kept frozen at.

On monday one upped its rival offering a vaccine based on the same technology that appears to be equally effective but which also can be stored at regular refrigerated temperatures.