Heating, Cooling & Refrigeration · Recorded milestone
Ultra-cold vaccine chain
Recorded year2020
Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID vaccine ships worldwide at minus 70 C in dry-ice boxes and ultra-low freezers, a cold chain built in months.
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.