Feb. 23—The state's largest hospitals are allowing some visitation for patients who are not suffering from COVID-19 after imposing limits on guests when the pandemic worsened. Allowing more visitation will ease what has been a distressing part of the pandemic — patients being cut off physically from loved ones, even while in the midst of a life-and-death struggle, hospital officials said at a .
New Mexico officials threw out 75 doses of Pfizer s coronavirus vaccine over concerns they became too warm during transportation
Vials were being transported from the state s Department of Health warehouse in Albuquerque to Union County General Hospital in Clayton on
Tuesday
While en route, a digital gauge showed that the storage temperature for the vaccines was too warm
Pfizer s vaccine needs to be stored in freezers or on dry ice between -94F (-70C) and -112F (-84C)
A total of 15 vials, containing 75 doses, needed to be discarded after crews weren t able to determine what the temperatures of the vaccines were