At Hospitals, A Race To Save ‘Hundreds Of Thousands Of Lives’ With New Vaccine

Dry ice will be used to help keep the Pfizer vaccine at ultra-cold temperatures.

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Lately, Jon Horton has been dreaming about freezers.

“I was opening the freezer and I was taking something out of the freezer and putting it in something else,” Horton said. “And it was just like – whew!”

But not just an ordinary freezer. Horton is pharmacy operations director at Sentara – a healthcare network based in Norfolk, Va.