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An official at the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center in Colorado checks the temperature monitor on a shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images A last-minute snafu this fall threatened to disrupt the smooth rollout of the first Covid-19 vaccine approved in the United States, according to industry officials. At issue was how to monitor the temperature of the ultra-cold storage containers being used to distribute vials of the vaccine developed by Pfizer and its partner BioNTech. Pfizer, the officials told STAT, planned to disconnect te...

Army Issues $25M Sole-Source Contract to Monitor COVID-19 Vaccine Temperatures M-Foto/Shutterstock.com email The U.S. Army has issued a $25 million sole-source contract to Controlant Global—based in Iceland—to provide global on-site temperature monitoring for COVID-19 vaccine distributions for as many as 300 million Americans. According to the award notice, the contract was issued Nov. 25 under a Special Emergency Procurement authorized by President Donald Trump, superseding a traditional full and open government procurement due to “an unusual and compelling urgency�...