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How the COVID-19 Vaccine Will Get to You, with Help from ‘Cold Chain’ Technology

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Ron Leibman
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Ron Leibman, a partner of McCarter & English, was called upon as an expert for an article in Forbes on Supply Chain and Logistics related to the distribution requirements for the COVID-19 vaccines.

“On Sunday, December 13, temperature-controlled semi-trailer trucks operated by Boyle Transportation, a UPS partner, hauled the first Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses exiting the pharmaceutical giant’s Portage, Michigan-based manufacturing plant. It was the initial leg of one of the most monumental relay races ever staged.

By early January, the US federal government’s Operation Warp Speed expects to distribute to the states about 20 million doses, a combination of the newly approved Moderna vaccine and the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. It’ll take a village.”

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