These containers will deliver Covid-19 vaccines across continents and oceans. But they were made to ship something else entirely

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2020-Dec-14 Mon 05:00

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It's one of the biggest logistical challenges in modern history: How will millions of Covid-19 vaccine doses that must be kept at incredibly cold temperatures be quickly shipped across continents and oceans?

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