TURLOCK, Calif. — The Central Valley is preparing to receive vaccines. Cal State University Stanislaus donated two medical-grade freezers to help store the vaccines in the county.
The university freezers are four times colder than a normal freezer, used to store plant and animal samples, as well as microorganisms for long-term storage.
“They are rare. They are expensive,” Dr. Jim Youngblom with Stanislaus State said. “Most freezers are at minus 20 degrees Celsius. And these are minus 80 degrees Celsius. And I think they’ve become really hard to come by with the vaccines now starting to be distributed.”
The university said it was approached by the Stanislaus County Public Health Department on Friday and the freezers were picked up Monday afternoon.
“We were just contacted recently, and they’ve already picked up the freezers,” Youngblom explained. “I think that suggests to me that the vaccines are coming.”
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