Moderna and Pfizer’s #COVID-19 vaccine candidates require ultra-low temperatures, raising questions about storage, distribution - MarketWatch
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Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine candidate [...] requires a storage temperature of negative 4 degrees Fahrenheit. BioNTech and Pfizer’s candidates, BN1162b2 and BNT162b2, need to be stored in negative 94 degrees Fahrenheit.
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The vaccines being developed by Moderna, BioNTech, and Pfizer are mRNA vaccines; however, other types of vaccines require less intense rules around storage. Concern about the difficulties of storing and shipping mMRNA COVID-19 vaccines to hundreds of millions of people could put the makers of these candidates at a competitive disadvantage, analysts say. It may also separate Moderna’s vaccine from the ones being developed by BioNTech and Pfizer.