The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Thursday it is allowing the mRNA vaccine by Pfizer-BioNTech to be stored at the standard freezer temperature for a period of up to two weeks.
Pharmaceutical freezers and refrigerators can facilitate the standard freezer temperatures of -25 to -15 degrees Celsius (-13 to 5 degrees Fahrenheit). The approval comes several days after the companies said they submitted new data to the FDA that shows vials of undiluted vaccine remain stable when stored at these temperatures for up to two weeks.
