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They're asking the U.

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Food and Drug Administration for permission to allow their vaccine to be stored in freezers at pharmacies instead of ultra cold storage facilities.

They've submitted data to support a proposed update to the current label for emergency use authorization of the vaccine so that storage rules could be changed.

Their proposal would allow vaccine vials to be stored it minus 13 to 5 F for two weeks.

The current label requires a vaccine to be stored it minus 112 to minus 76 F, temperatures that require an ultra cold freezer.

Such a change in the handling of the vaccine would make it significantly MAWR accessible, especially in developing countries that lacked the necessary infrastructure.

The two companies said they will submit the new data to global regulators within the next few weeks separately to Israeli studies have found that the fighter beyond tech vaccine greatly reduces transmission of the virus.