Quote Originally Posted by Rjk View Post
that seems like more promising news, especially that it can be stored in a fridge for upto a month, far more realistic to be able to roll this out than the Pfizer one.
I wonder if Pfizer realized that their offering would never be taken up without significant infrastructure in place to be able to deliver it at temperature, so they released their trial results first to try to get public pressure to make governments put that kind of infrastructure in place.
Of course Pfizer realised there was an issue with storage which is why in parallel they devised a Pfizer cold box container to transport it at the correct temperature. The fact that it can be refrigerated for up to 5 days before use makes it manageable for mass vaccination. The specialist pharmaceutical logistic companies can handle both. I don't see that being able to store in a fridge for a month is much better than 5 days in practice.. The fridges used, say in a surgery, are not like your domestic one, they are specialist scientific ones with calibrated temperature control, usually quite small.