One local dry ice company is soon going to be helping pharmacies store the vaccine as it starts to become more widely available.
At Capitol Carbonic in southwest Baltimore, their specialty is making storage extra frosty, and that’s exactly what pharmacies need as they start to receive the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine.
“The temperature for this vaccine is critical, and I’m hearing anywhere between -70 and -94, and dry ice is 109 below zero,” John Dillinger, General Manager of Capitol Carbonic, said.
The company recently started getting phone calls about buying dry ice for pharmacies and health centers that will administer the vaccine since many don’t have freezers that can get ultracold.
Little pellets of dry ice will be used for the Pfizer vaccine. They’ll soon go out to pharmacies all across the Baltimore-area once more doses of the vaccine are shipped in.