As part of Operation Warp Speed, the FDA dropped non-essential requirements.
One of those was temperature testing. A new drug usually gets a couple months of testing to see what temp it is safe to ship at. In this case they skipped that and went for the coldest/safest until they figured it out.
Since then they have proven the vaccine is safe to store and transport at a higher temperature.
“they have proven the vaccine is safe to store and transport at a higher temperature.”
That is amusing.
They have no clue what the long term effect of these vaccines is—at any temperature.
“Proof”?
Nope!
I seem to recall a few batches going bad because of storage though... i can get behind what you’re saying though.
To me i thought the refrigeration requirement was also a control tactic. In my area we specialize in freezing (headquarters of Tyson and we have a lot of of food storage innovators) we had to shuffle refrigeration all over the area and were exporting our freezers. I remembered the hospital getting a “20,000 dollar unit” from don’s cold storage.
Either way i thought this freezing protocol existed to bring rural people to the refrigerators. In other words, trains loaded with people forced into going into processing centers because their municipality could not access thr expensive coolers.