ISU prepared to help store vaccine
ISU
POCATELLO, Idaho (KIFI/KIDK) - Idaho State University has taken delivery of a new freezer that will help the Southeast Idaho Public Health District store the district’s supply of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.
It is designed to store a variety of items common to research facilities, like tissue samples, DNA, and RNA, at temperatures as low as -70 to -86 degrees Celsius.
It will be used until the district’s freezer arrives sometime in January.
“We actually got two of these freezers for our labs in Pocatello early this year but only began using one of them before the pandemic caused us to move to distance-based instruction and significantly impacted our research,” said ISU Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences Chair Marvin Schulte. “We didn’t even fully unwrap the second one, but we knew we would need it eventually. I’m glad that they will be able to use it.”