The teams looking for ways to distribute COVID-19 vaccines that
require temperatures as low as minus 70 are looking to agriculture for answers.
Semex uses cannisters to store semen at temperatures about
that cold.
That has prompted Canadian officials to suggest that the
auto-parts industry might be asked to make enough cannisters similar to the ones
for semen stored in liquid nitrogen for a nation-wide vaccine rollout.
Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork packer, is
offering its services to help distribute COVID-19 vaccines across the United
States.
Pfizer’s vaccine requires minus 70 and Moderna’s vaccine
minus 20.
Astra-Zeneca’s can be stored at two degrees.
