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.
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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