• A convoy of trucks loaded with Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine are leaving the drugmaker’s Michigan manufacturing center on Sunday, carrying doses of the newly approved drug.
• Tractor trailers carrying the vaccine will make their way to a UPS hub in Louisville, Kentucky, where they’ll be loaded on planes to be shipped around the country.
• “We have spent months strategizing with Operation Warp Speed officials and our healthcare customers on efficient vaccine logistics, and the time has arrived to put the plan into action,” said Wes Wheeler, president of UPS Healthcare, in a statement.
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A convoy of trucks loaded with Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine are leaving the drugmaker’s Michigan, manufacturing center on Sunday, carrying doses of the newly approved vaccine to hospitals and clinics around the US.

“This is the moment of truth we’ve been waiting for at UPS. We have spent months strategizing with Operation Warp Speed officials and our healthcare customers on efficient vaccine logistics, and the time has arrived to put the plan into action,” said Wes Wheeler, president of UPS Healthcare, in a statement.

Pfizer’s vaccine, developed with Germany’s BioNTech, gained emergency approval from the US Food …continued .
[Source: Business Insider]