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A convoy of trucks is now ready to leave Pzifer’s production facility in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The transport consists of containers filled with storage boxes, the size of a suitcase, packed with dry ice and up to 4,875 doses of vaccine per box. The vaccine must be stored at minus 70 degrees, which means additional logistical challenges.
Valuables will be escorted by the police from Kalamazoo to their final destinations, most of them by air. 145 US locations have been reserved for the first doses, which are expected to hit hospitals Monday and go first to care workers and the elderly living in nursing homes.
“The first doses will be available within 24 hours,” President Donald Trump said in a video on Twitter on Saturday.
The boxes are GPS tracked and equipped with temperature sensors that can be read digitally.
The Pfizer-Biontech vaccine, which was “emergency approved” by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Saturday, is delivered from two soccer-field-sized facilities with hundreds of large freezers. One is in Kalamazoo and the other is in Belgian Puurs.
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