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ISU pharmacy students assisting in COVID vaccine efforts in Idaho and Alaska
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ISU students in Anchorage, Alaska, have administered over 700 COVID-19 vaccines in assisted living facilities and hospitals to date. Here, they are at Pioneer Homes distributing the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine to patients and staff members. | Courtesy Idaho State University
POCATELLO Student pharmacists at Idaho State University have joined the front lines, administering COVID-19 vaccines in Idaho and Alaska.
About 40 student pharmacists have already begun assisting in the vaccination process. Twenty students are at St. Alphonsus Medical Centers across the Treasure Valley. Additionally, ISU student pharmacists have vaccinated more than 700 people in Anchorage, Alaska, where ISU has operated a pharmacy program in collaboration with the University of Anchorage Alaska for the past five years.
ISU lab freezers help store vaccine for Southeastern Idaho Public Health
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POCATELLO The recently approved and now-being-distributed COVID-19 vaccine demands a holding temperature of -70 degrees Celsius.
That demand has given purpose to ISU’s relatively new laboratory freezers.
Idaho State University’s department of biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences owns the freezers, which can store substances at -86 degrees Celsius. The were purchased early in 2020.
But now, with a new freezer purchased by Southeastern Idaho Public Health not scheduled to arrive until January, ISU will hold southeast Idaho’s allotment of the vaccine as it is being administered.
Southeastern Idaho Public Health, ISU team up to store incoming COVID-19 vaccine
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POCATELLO A new freezer recently delivered to Idaho State University has found an important use – storing southeast Idaho’s supply of COVID-19 vaccine. The freezer, a Thermo Scientific Revco RLE Series Ultra-Low freezer, is designed to hold a variety of items common to research facilities, such as tissue samples, DNA and RNA. With its capacity to store these substances at -86 degrees Celsius, and the fact that it’s not already full, it’s the perfect place for the incoming COVID-19 vaccine.
Pfizer’s vaccine, approved for emergency use by the Food and Drug Administration on Dec. 10, requires storage at -70 degrees Celsius and is expected to reach Idaho in the next week or so. But a new freezer purchased by Southeastern Idaho Public Health won’t arrive until January 2021. That’s where ISU Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences Marvin Sc