One important learning that the entire world has realized throughout the past year is risk mitigation. From washing hands, physical distancing, face coverings, and more, most everyone will forever have simple hygiene lessons ingrained into their daily routines. Similarly, as COVID-19 vaccines have rolled out, risk mitigation measures have become common discussions among those manufacturing, transporting, and storing these valuable pharmaceuticals as just one temperature excursion – at any point in the cold chain, could potentially spoil an entire lot.
While hospitals and clinics have always had to ensure that the vaccines and medicines being stored in-house are temperature-protected to safeguard patient distribution, the sporadic supply of coronavirus vaccines – and urgency to inoculate large populations quickly, has drastically escalated the importance and in some cases, has exposed concerns and left some scrambling when the unexpected occurs.
Dependable storage solutions – and cold storage contingency plans that include emergency generators and backup refrigeration, are a must for all hospitals and healthcare providers. The risk of lost product from both a patient efficacy and financial standpoint is simply too great to take chances.
The SuperFreezer container is one of Thermo King’s end-to-end transport and storage solutions and can provide storage temperatures as low as -70oC and hold up to 60 times more pharmaceutical vials than traditional reach-in freezers. This multipurpose refrigerated container is plug and play with a 360-500 Volt 50 or 60 Hz power supply and offers medical sites another option in refrigerated – or frozen, storage. Protecting valuable pharmaceuticals, blood plasma and more, the SuperFreezer is part of Thermo King’s proven portfolio of Cold Storage Solutions.