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Drones could begin vaccine deliveries in April, firm says
Drone delivery service Zipline announced Thursday that it is partnering with “a leading manufacturer of COVID-19 vaccines” to begin distributing shots to its global partner locations as soon a…
thehill.com
Drone delivery service Zipline announced Thursday that it is partnering with “a leading manufacturer of COVID-19 vaccines” to begin distributing shots to its global partner locations as soon as April.
The release, first reported by Bloomberg, says that the San Francisco-based company has built a system that can transport medical supplies that require low temperatures, including “all leading COVID-19 vaccines.”
Zipline did not specify its partner coronavirus vaccine manufacturer, though the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine must be stored and transported in special freezers at temperatures of negative 70 degrees Celsius.
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Zipline would not commit as to which vaccine firms they are partnering with, but the ultra cold storage requirement for the Pfizer vaccine raises some significant problems in terms of engineering the drones to carry it.
