re: MD Giving Vaccine

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Cold storage and shelf life are your answers here.

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Cold storage is not an issue. Standard refrigerator freezers are acceptable for all 3 brands. Pfizer originally needed low temp freezers that would rule out private MD offices and privately owned pharmacies.

Shelf life might have an impact.

I personally believe it is because of the way the vaccines were rolled out in Louisiana. Large facilities with sub zero capabilities received Pfizer and smaller hospitals and pharmacies received Moderna. By the time vaccines were plentiful enough to distribute to private MD offices, the distribution network had already been established. Our local MDs refer vaccine patients to the local pharmacies.