How to Use ultracold in a Sentence

ultracold

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• For example, Pfizer’s vaccine needs to be kept in ultracold freezers if stored for longer than two weeks, which small sites may not have.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 4 May 2021
• Covid vaccines are finicky, hard to manufacture, and hard to distribute because of, in the case of the ones based on mRNA, a snowflake-like need for ultracold freezers.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 19 Nov. 2021
• There, for the past 5 years, a high-tech thermos called Arktek has helped distribute Ebola vaccines that must be kept ultracold.
  — Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | AAAS, 16 Nov. 2020
• That could make the vaccine easier to deploy in places that don’t have specialized ultracold freezers or dry ice.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2020
• Pfizer’s vaccine must be stored in ultracold freezers, but Moderna’s can be kept in a standard freezer like those found in most home kitchens.
  — Robert Langreth, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2020
• Some countries have struggled to get in place the ultracold freezers necessary to store the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
  — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2020
• The pharmacies have the ability to store the Pfizer vaccine at the necessary ultracold temperatures and transport it to nursing homes across the state.
  — al, 15 Jan. 2021
• Ordinarily, that would be a puzzle because the ions are ultracold and have no other source of energy.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2021
• This helps shield the telescope’s ultracold instruments from heat and light that could interfere with its observations.
  — NBC news, 21 Dec. 2021
• The vaccines could offer advantages for poorer countries that lack the ultracold freezer network that some shots require.
  — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 18 June 2022
• Many African countries lack proper storage for vaccines such as Pfizer’s, which needs to be stored at ultracold temperatures.
  — Yasmeen Abutaleb and Lesley Wroughton, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Nov. 2021
• Improving our atomic clocks With current state-of-the-art atomic clocks, physicists measure the oscillations of thousands of ultracold atoms.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 18 July 2022
• Unlike the Pfizer vaccine, the Moderna vaccine does not need to be stored at ultracold temperatures.
  — NBC News, 19 Dec. 2020
• Moderna’s can be stored in normal freezers, but Pfizer’s requires ultracold storage such as dry ice.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 29 Dec. 2020
• For the time being, the shot is only being administered by 50 hospitals, owing to its ultracold storage needs.
  — Benjamin Mueller, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2020
• According to Harris, there are about 70 facilities statewide that have agreed to distribute vaccines, and 15 of those have the ultracold storage units required for the Pfizer vaccine.
  — al, 18 Dec. 2020
• During a second launch attempt Sept. 3, the countdown was halted again, this time by a leak in the line filling ultracold liquid hydrogen into the rocket’s propellant tanks.
  — Kenneth Chang, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Nov. 2022
• Moreover, the larger hospitals had the ultracold freezers needed to store the vaccines and the experience handling and distributing shots.
  — Andrea Gallo, NOLA.com, 9 Jan. 2021
• The Pfizer vaccine, once required to have ultracold freezers, can stay in a regular refrigerator for five days.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2021
• Some vaccines must be stored at ultracold temperatures, so expanding the list of vaccine distributors could mean some doses go to waste if providers can’t use them quickly enough.
  — Stephanie Armour, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
• Initial shipments of that vaccine went to hospitals with ultracold storage, bypassing many of the smaller facilities across the state.
  — al, 13 Jan. 2021
• But there are still big challenges to overcome: mRNA vaccines require ultracold storage and can cause unpleasant, and in very rare cases, dangerous, side effects.
  — Denise Roland, WSJ, 23 July 2021
• The Pfizer vaccine must be stored at ultracold temperatures and administered quickly after it is thawed out.
  — Mohamed Ibrahim, Star Tribune, 26 Mar. 2021
• The facility also includes a mammoth warehouse and giant ultracold freezers being prepared to store about two weeks of supplies used in the development process.
  — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 26 Oct. 2021
• The vaccines also require ultracold temperatures, which experts say limits their use — at least for now — to wealthier countries.
  — New York Times, 3 May 2021
• That story includes issues of access, fragile health-care systems and the difficulty of making sure Pfizer’s vaccine remains ultracold.
  — Yasmeen Abutaleb and Lesley Wroughton, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Nov. 2021
• Pfizer says its vaccine has a shorter shelf life of five days after being transferred from ultracold storage to a refrigerator, leaving a short window to administer the vaccines.
  — Bahar Aliakbarian, The Conversation, 4 Dec. 2020
• The vaccines must also be stored at ultracold temperatures, and if no storage capacity is available the doses have to be administered within five days of arrival, health officials said.
  — Mike Nolan, chicagotribune.com, 16 Dec. 2020
• Israel has depended on the Pfizer vaccine, which requires ultracold storage, to inoculate more than 40 percent of its residents.
  — Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2021
• Most superconductors have to be chilled to ultracold temperatures, which limits their practical use.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 26 July 2023

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024