Pfizer’s vaccine being flown on dry-ice packed United Airlines charter planes

[Mary Wilson]

November 27, 2020 | 9:59pm
By Laura Italiano

United Airlines has already begun flying Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine into position — including trips to and from locations in the U.S. and Europe — in anticipation of approval by the Food and Drug Administration and other regulators, according to a report.

The first charter flights are part of Pfizer’s efforts to move quickly once approvals are granted, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Pfizer has final vaccine assembly centers in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and in Purrs, Belgium, and runs distribution storage sites in Pleasant Prairie, Wis., and Karlsruhe, Germany, the paper said.

https://nypost.com/2020/11/27/pfizers-vaccine-being-flown-on-dry-ice-packed-united-charter-planes/

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[Mary Wilson]

German vials in spotlight as COVID-19 vaccine nears

NOVEMBER 25, 2020
by Michelle Fitzpatrick

As expectations grow that the first COVID-19 jabs will be administered in a matter of weeks, German glassmaker Schott is quietly doing what it has been for months: churning out vials that will hold the vaccine.

The 130-year-old company, whose founder Otto Schott invented the high-quality borosilicate glass favoured by the pharma industry, has been working round the clock to meet unprecedented demand.

Already it has delivered millions of the little bottles to vaccine makers involved in COVID-19 trials, who have already started filling them so they can be shipped out the minute regulators give the okay.
... Schott is supplying vials for three-quarters of the more than 100 coronavirus vaccine trials worldwide.

... To keep production moving, workers are churning out vials 24 hours a day, a typical pace in the sector, and outsiders are banned from the premises to minimise the risk of coronavirus infections.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-11-german-vials-spotlight-covid-vaccine.html