abstract:Vaccine refrigerators are designed to store vaccines and other medical products at a stable temperature to ensure they do not degrade. In developing countries with a sunny climate, solar-powered vaccine refrigerators are common.
But in a nondescript industrial building in the central Connecticut town of Meriden, we reached into a refrigerator Wednesday and held a small vial its producers say is a safe H1N1 vaccine that can be produced much faster than the vaccines the government has ordered.