September
03
/ 2021
The change has the potential to increase the availability of vaccines in smaller, more rural areas and decrease the number of wasted doses.
So far, the Pfizer vaccine has been available in two packages: one with 450 doses and another with 1,170. But the vaccine's cold storage requirement limits where and for how long they can be kept, making it challenging for smaller facilities to store high quantities of the vaccine without wasting doses.