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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deset Gled" data-source="post: 8164320" data-attributes="member: 7808">It's absolutely not "the major issue of the moment".  All of the biggest hot spots and first stage distribution plans start in metropolitan areas.  All the cities have access to cold storage, and have the transportation available to move the vaccine as needed.It's a major issue to consider in any serious long term distribution plan.  A large number of rural areas don't have access to the type of freezers needed.  And at longer distances, transporting the vaccine at proper temperature also becomes an issue.  Here's few articles I found that mention the problem in a quick google:[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/11/rural-hospitals-cant-afford-freezers-to-store-pfizer-covid19-vaccine/[/URL][URL unfurl="true"]https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/vaccine-rollout-looms-so-do-big-questions-around-supply-chains[/URL][URL unfurl="true"]https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-vaccines-are-slow-to-reach-rural-america-11608390001[/URL]Freezer access is exactly the type of long term planning that the federal government should have been handling months ago.  Before the FDA ever approved the vaccine, this was a known problem.  The fact that freezer discussion isn't an immediate part of the distribution plan just highlights how short sighted and fundamentally useless our current planning is.</blockquote>