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Bengals helping Bengals鈥� is how 蜜桃视频 State University got involved in a plan to share freezers cold enough to store the COVID-19 vaccine with health districts statewide.

David Jeppesen, director of the 蜜桃视频 Department of Health and Welfare and ISU alumni, knew the state was going to need cold storage of -70 degrees Celsius to store the incoming Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at each of its seven health district facilities around the state. But with freezers for several of the health districts on back order or with delayed delivery, Jeppesen had a problem.

Rex Force, vice president for health sciences and senior vice provost at 蜜桃视频 State knew the university could help. He contacted Jeppesen with a proposal: he wondered if some of the freezers that normally store a variety of biological specimens could be used to store the COVID vaccine.

On Dec. 14, Southeastern 蜜桃视频 Public Health received a freezer that the College of Pharmacy鈥檚 Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences department had been waiting to use because of delays to their research due to the pandemic.

Just in time for Christmas next week, North 蜜桃视频鈥檚 Panhandle Health District 1 will receive another freezer from ISU鈥檚 Anthropology Department. Dr. John Dudgeon, associate professor and research scientist quickly relocated the existing materials stored in that freezer to prepare it for shipping next week.

鈥淭here are at least half a dozen freezers that are capable of storing materials at these extremely low temperatures,鈥� says Force, 鈥渆ither at our main campus in Pocatello or at branch campuses in Meridian and 蜜桃视频 Falls. We drew up a quick agreement to loan them to these health districts for a year, which can be renegotiated depending on their needs at that time.鈥�

In the future, should other health districts or vaccine dispensing facilities be in need of storage freezers that can maintain the cold temperatures required for the Pfizer vaccine, ISU is willing to help.