COVID-19.Jason Tompkins, owner of One Tuna in North Lake, P. E. I., said in an interview Thursday he has loaned two of his laboratory-grade freezers to the province to store the recently approved Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.The vaccine needs to be kept at a frosty -70 C, according to Pfizer, whose vaccine got the green light from Health Canada on Wednesday.
Prince Edward Island to begin COVID-19 vaccinations next week in Charlottetown The freezers on loan average about -87 C, Tompkins said.“I know that they’re not something that everyone just has laying around,” he said. “If we can do anything to help out, it’s kind of our duty.”He said he emailed P.E.I.’s chief public health officer Dr.