Distribution Of COVID Vaccine Exercise In Colorado

Mock drill simulates Colorado's arrival of first Covid-19 vaccines.LOVELAND SKI AREA, COLORADO - NOVEMBER 8: A convoy of vehicles, one containing a shipment of mock Covid-19 vaccines, led by Colorado State Patrol officers, makes its way west on I-70 heading to Vail on December 8, 2020 near Loveland Ski Area, Colorado. With the state expecting its first shipment of a COVID-19 vaccine in a matter of days, the state health department ran an exercise to see how ready it is to take on such a mass vaccination campaign. The Pfizer vaccine, which is the first shot expected to gain federal approval, will be difficult for the state to distribute as it needs to be stored at sub-zero temperatures and requires two shots. The Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management held a dry run or drill of receiving the vaccines in a thermal shipping container at Denver International Airport, using a courier car to take the vaccines to Vail Health Hospital and then the path the vaccines will follow once at the hospital from the pharmacy to a patient receiving the vaccine. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Mock drill simulates Colorado's arrival of first Covid-19 vaccines.VAIL, COLORADO - NOVEMBER 8: Vail Health Hospital pharmacy technician Rob Brown opens a box containing mock Covid-19 vaccines that had just arrived in a thermal shipping container in the pharmacy at the hospital on December 8, 2020 in Vail, Colorado. The mock vaccines are packaged in the thermal shipping containers that uses dry ice to maintain a temperature of between -60 to -86 degrees celsius to keep the vaccines cold. They in turn will be transferred to an ultra-cold freezer to maintain those temperatures. There are only a handful of hospitals that have these very specialized ultra-cold freezers which will limit in the beginning where the vaccines will end up in Colorado. Vail Health Hospital has the capacity to store up to 5,000 doses in its freezer. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Mock drill simulates Colorado's arrival of first Covid-19 vaccines.VAIL, COLORADO - NOVEMBER 8: Vail Health Hospital pharmacy technician Rob Brown, right, takes mock Covid-19 vaccines out of the thermal shipping container with help from pharmacist Jessica Peterson, left, in the pharmacy at the hospital on December 8, 2020 in Vail, Colorado. The mock vaccines are packaged in the thermal shipping containers that uses dry ice to maintain a temperature of between -60 to -86 degrees celsius to keep the vaccines cold. They in turn will be transferred to an ultra-cold freezer to maintain those temperatures. There are only a handful of hospitals that have these very specialized ultra-cold freezers which will limit in the beginning where the vaccines will end up in Colorado. Vail Health Hospital has the capacity to store up to 5,000 doses in its freezer. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Mock drill simulates Colorado's arrival of first Covid-19 vaccines.VAIL, COLORADO - NOVEMBER 8: Vail Health Hospital pharmacy technician Rob Brown holds the mock Covid-19 vaccines that had just arrived in a thermal shipping container in the pharmacy at the hospital on December 8, 2020 in Vail, Colorado. The mock vaccines are packaged in the thermal shipping containers that uses dry ice to maintain a temperature of between -60 to -86 degrees celsius to keep the vaccines cold. They in turn will be transferred to an ultra-cold freezer to maintain those temperatures. There are only a handful of hospitals that have these very specialized ultra-cold freezers which will limit in the beginning where the vaccines will end up in Colorado. Vail Health Hospital has the capacity to store up to 5,000 doses in its freezer. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Mock drill simulates Colorado's arrival of first Covid-19 vaccines.VAIL, COLORADO - NOVEMBER 8: Vail Health Hospital pharmacy technician Rob Brown, left, signs the necessary paperwork to take possession of mock Covid-19 vaccines from courier driver Leo Gomez, center, as pharmacist Jessica Peterson watches over the process in the pharmacy on December 8, 2020 in Vail, Colorado. With the state expecting its first shipment of a COVID-19 vaccine in a matter of days, the state health department ran an exercise to see how ready it is to take on such a mass vaccination campaign. The Pfizer vaccine, which is the first shot expected to gain federal approval, will be difficult for the state to distribute as it needs to be stored at sub-zero temperatures and requires two shots. The Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management held a dry run or drill of receiving the vaccines in a thermal shipping container at Denver International Airport, using a courier car to take the vaccines to Vail Health Hospital and then the path the vaccines will follow once at the hospital from the pharmacy to a patient receiving the vaccine. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Mock drill simulates Colorado's arrival of first Covid-19 vaccines.VAIL, COLORADO - NOVEMBER 8: Vail Health Hospital pharmacy technician Rob Brown practices measuring the exact dosage for a mock Covid-19 vaccine in the sterile compounding room in the pharmacy on December 8, 2020 in Vail, Colorado. From one vial, once reconstituted to be administered to a patient, there are five doses of the vaccine. With the state expecting its first shipment of a COVID-19 vaccine in a matter of days, the state health department ran an exercise to see how ready it is to take on such a mass vaccination campaign. The Pfizer vaccine, which is the first shot expected to gain federal approval, will be difficult for the state to distribute as it needs to be stored at sub-zero temperatures and requires two shots. The Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management held a dry run or drill of receiving the vaccines in a thermal shipping container at Denver International Airport, using a courier car to take the vaccines to Vail Health Hospital and then the path the vaccines will follow once at the hospital from the pharmacy to a patient receiving the vaccine. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Mock drill simulates Colorado's arrival of first Covid-19 vaccines.VAIL, COLORADO - NOVEMBER 8: Vail Health Hospital pharmacy technician Rob Brown works on practicing the procedure of reconstituting mock Covid-19 vaccines in the sterile compounding room in the pharmacy on December 8, 2020 in Vail, Colorado. From one vial, once reconstituted to be administered to a patient, there are five doses of the vaccine. With the state expecting its first shipment of a COVID-19 vaccine in a matter of days, the state health department ran an exercise to see how ready it is to take on such a mass vaccination campaign. The Pfizer vaccine, which is the first shot expected to gain federal approval, will be difficult for the state to distribute as it needs to be stored at sub-zero temperatures and requires two shots. The Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management held a dry run or drill of receiving the vaccines in a thermal shipping container at Denver International Airport, using a courier car to take the vaccines to Vail Health Hospital and then the path the vaccines will follow once at the hospital from the pharmacy to a patient receiving the vaccine. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Mock drill simulates Colorado's arrival of first Covid-19 vaccines.Vail Health Hospital pharmacy technician Rob Brown practices measuring the exact dosage for a mock Covid-19 vaccine in the sterile compounding room in the pharmacy on December 8, 2020. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Mock drill simulates Colorado's arrival of first Covid-19 vaccines.VAIL, COLORADO - NOVEMBER 8: Vail Health Hospital pharmacy pharmacist Jessica Peterson, left, places two boxes of mock Covid-19 vaccines into the hospital's ultra-cold freezer at the hospital on December 8, 2020 in Vail, Colorado. The mock vaccines are packaged in the thermal shipping containers that uses dry ice to maintain a temperature of between -60 to -86 degrees celsius to keep the vaccines cold. They in turn will be transferred to these ultra-cold freezer to maintain those temperatures. There are only a handful of hospitals that have these very specialized ultra-cold freezers which will limit in the beginning where the vaccines will end up in Colorado. Vail Health Hospital has the capacity to store up to 5,000 doses in its freezer. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Mock drill simulates Colorado's arrival of first Covid-19 vaccines.VAIL, COLORADO - NOVEMBER 8: Vail Health Hospital pharmacy technician Rob Brown takes mock Covid-19 vaccines out of a thermal shipping container in the pharmacy at the hospital on December 8, 2020 in Vail, Colorado. The mock vaccines are packaged in the thermal shipping containers that uses dry ice to maintain a temperature of between -60 to -86 degrees celsius to keep the vaccines cold. They in turn will be transferred to an ultra-cold freezer to maintain those temperatures. There are only a handful of hospitals that have these very specialized ultra-cold freezers which will limit in the beginning where the vaccines will end up in Colorado. Vail Health Hospital has the capacity to store up to 5,000 doses in its freezer. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Mock drill simulates Colorado's arrival of first Covid-19 vaccines.A Vail Health Hospital technician shows a vial of the mock Covid-19 vaccine on December 8, 2020. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Mock drill simulates Colorado's arrival of first Covid-19 vaccines.VAIL, COLORADO - NOVEMBER 8: Vail Health Hospital pharmacy technician Rob Brown opens the box containing mock Covid-19 vaccines packaged in a thermal shipping container in the pharmacy at the hospital on December 8, 2020 in Vail, Colorado. The mock vaccines are packaged in the thermal shipping containers that uses dry ice to maintain a temperature of between -60 to -86 degrees celsius to keep the vaccines cold. They in turn will be transferred to an ultra-cold freezer to maintain those temperatures. There are only a handful of hospitals that have these very specialized ultra-cold freezers which will limit in the beginning where the vaccines will end up in Colorado. Vail Health Hospital has the capacity to store up to 5,000 doses in its freezer. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Mock drill simulates Colorado's arrival of first Covid-19 vaccines.VAIL, COLORADO - NOVEMBER 8: Vail Health Hospital pharmacy technician Rob Brown shows a vial of the mock Covid-19 vaccine in the pharmacy at the hospital on December 8, 2020 in Vail, Colorado. The mock vaccines are packaged in the thermal shipping containers that uses dry ice to maintain a temperature of between -60 to -86 degrees celsius to keep the vaccines cold. They in turn will be transferred to an ultra-cold freezer to maintain those temperatures. There are only a handful of hospitals that have these very specialized ultra-cold freezers which will limit in the beginning where the vaccines will end up in Colorado. Vail Health Hospital has the capacity to store up to 5,000 doses in its freezer. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Mock drill simulates Colorado's arrival of first Covid-19 vaccines.DENVER, COLORADO - NOVEMBER 8: Micki Trost, Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management strategic communications director, wears her face mask as she awaits the arrival of the mock Covid-19 vaccines at DIA Satellite Badging Office on December 8, 2020 in Denver, Colorado. With the state expecting its first shipment of a COVID-19 vaccine in a matter of days, the state health department ran an exercise to see how ready it is to take on such a mass vaccination campaign. The Pfizer vaccine, which is the first shot expected to gain federal approval, will be difficult for the state to distribute as it needs to be stored at sub-zero temperatures and requires two shots. The Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management held a dry run or drill of receiving mock vaccines in a thermal shipping container at Denver International Airport, using a courier car to take the vaccines to Vail Health Hospital and then the path the vaccines will follow once at the hospital from the pharmacy to a patient receiving the vaccine. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Mock drill simulates Colorado's arrival of first Covid-19 vaccines.DENVER, COLORADO - NOVEMBER 8: A convoy of vehicles, one containing the Covid-19 vaccines, led by Colorado State Patrol officers, makes its way west on I-70 heading to Vail on December 8, 2020 in Denver, Colorado. With the state expecting its first shipment of a COVID-19 vaccine in a matter of days, the state health department ran an exercise to see how ready it is to take on such a mass vaccination campaign. The Pfizer vaccine, which is the first shot expected to gain federal approval, will be difficult for the state to distribute as it needs to be stored at sub-zero temperatures and requires two shots. The Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management held a dry run or drill of receiving mock vaccines in a thermal shipping container at Denver International Airport, using a courier car to take the vaccines to Vail Health Hospital and then the path the vaccines will follow once at the hospital from the pharmacy to a patient receiving the vaccine. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Mock drill simulates Colorado's arrival of first Covid-19 vaccines.VAIL, COLORADO - NOVEMBER 8: Vail Health Hospital employee health nurse Diane Schmidt, left, gives a mock Covid-19 vaccine to Caitlyn Ngam, right, an infection preventionist at the hospital on December 8, 2020 in Vail, Colorado. With the state expecting its first shipment of a COVID-19 vaccine in a matter of days, the state health department ran an exercise to see how ready it is to take on such a mass vaccination campaign. The Pfizer vaccine, which is the first shot expected to gain federal approval, will be difficult for the state to distribute as it needs to be stored at sub-zero temperatures and requires two shots. The Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management held a dry run or drill of receiving the vaccines in a thermal shipping container at Denver International Airport, using a courier car to take the vaccines to Vail Health Hospital and then the path the vaccines will follow once at the hospital from the pharmacy to a patient receiving the vaccine. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Mock drill simulates Colorado's arrival of first Covid-19 vaccines.VAIL, COLORADO - NOVEMBER 8: City of Vail police officer Dwight Henninger, left, Vail Valley security officer Chris Thompson, center and pharmacist Jessica Peterson, right, await the arrival of the shipment of mock Covid-19 vaccines to Vail Health Hospital on December 8, 2020 in Vail, Colorado. With the state expecting its first shipment of a COVID-19 vaccine in a matter of days, the state health department ran an exercise to see how ready it is to take on such a mass vaccination campaign. The Pfizer vaccine, which is the first shot expected to gain federal approval, will be difficult for the state to distribute as it needs to be stored at sub-zero temperatures and requires two shots. The Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management held a dry run or drill of receiving the vaccines in a thermal shipping container at Denver International Airport, using a courier car to take the vaccines to Vail Health Hospital and then the path the vaccines will follow once at the hospital from the pharmacy to a patient receiving the vaccine. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Mock drill simulates Colorado's arrival of first Covid-19 vaccines.DENVER, COLORADO - NOVEMBER 8: Courier driver Leo Gomez brings out a large cardboard box carrying a shipment of mock Covid-19 vaccines boxed in a thermal shipping container at DIA Satellite Badging Office on December 8, 2020 in Denver, Colorado. With the state expecting its first shipment of a COVID-19 vaccine in a matter of days, the state health department ran an exercise to see how ready it is to take on such a mass vaccination campaign. The Pfizer vaccine, which is the first shot expected to gain federal approval, will be difficult for the state to distribute as it needs to be stored at sub-zero temperatures and requires two shots. The Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management held a dry run or drill of receiving the vaccines in a thermal shipping container at Denver International Airport, using a courier car to take the vaccines to Vail Health Hospital and then the path the vaccines will follow once at the hospital from the pharmacy to a patient receiving the vaccine. The vaccines are packaged in the thermal shipping containers that uses dry ice to maintain a temperature of between -60 to -86 degrees celsius to keep the vaccines cold.(Photo by Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Mock drill simulates Colorado's arrival of first Covid-19 vaccines.VAIL, COLORADO - NOVEMBER 8: Vail Valley security officer Chris Thompson, left, and City of Vail police officer Dwight Henninger, right, escort pharmacist Jessica Peterson, second from right, and courier driver Leo Gomez, center, and Kimberly Flynn, second from left, director of safety, security and emergency preparedness for Vail Health System, down the hallways with the shipment of mock Covid-19 vaccines to Vail Health Hospital on December 8, 2020 in Vail, Colorado. With the state expecting its first shipment of a COVID-19 vaccine in a matter of days, the state health department ran an exercise to see how ready it is to take on such a mass vaccination campaign. The Pfizer vaccine, which is the first shot expected to gain federal approval, will be difficult for the state to distribute as it needs to be stored at sub-zero temperatures and requires two shots. The Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management held a dry run or drill of receiving the vaccines in a thermal shipping container at Denver International Airport, using a courier car to take the vaccines to Vail Health Hospital and then the path the vaccines will follow once at the hospital from the pharmacy to a patient receiving the vaccine. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Mock drill simulates Colorado's arrival of first Covid-19 vaccines.VAIL, COLORADO - NOVEMBER 8: Vail Health Hospital pharmacy technician Rob Brown puts on his personal protective equipment as he prepares to handle the mock Covid-19 vaccine in the hospital's pharmacy on December 8, 2020 in Vail, Colorado. With the state expecting its first shipment of a COVID-19 vaccine in a matter of days, the state health department ran an exercise to see how ready it is to take on such a mass vaccination campaign. The Pfizer vaccine, which is the first shot expected to gain federal approval, will be difficult for the state to distribute as it needs to be stored at sub-zero temperatures and requires two shots. The Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management held a dry run or drill of receiving the vaccines in a thermal shipping container at Denver International Airport, using a courier car to take the vaccines to Vail Health Hospital and then the path the vaccines will follow once at the hospital from the pharmacy to a patient receiving the vaccine. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Mock drill simulates Colorado's arrival of first Covid-19 vaccines.VAIL, COLORADO - NOVEMBER 8: Vail Health Hospital employee health nurse Diane Schmidt holds up a mock Covid-19 vaccine vial at the hospital on December 8, 2020 in Vail, Colorado. With the state expecting its first shipment of a COVID-19 vaccine in a matter of days, the state health department ran an exercise to see how ready it is to take on such a mass vaccination campaign. The Pfizer vaccine, which is the first shot expected to gain federal approval, will be difficult for the state to distribute as it needs to be stored at sub-zero temperatures and requires two shots. The Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management held a dry run or drill of receiving the vaccines in a thermal shipping container at Denver International Airport, using a courier car to take the vaccines to Vail Health Hospital and then the path the vaccines will follow once at the hospital from the pharmacy to a patient receiving the vaccine. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Mock drill simulates Colorado's arrival of first Covid-19 vaccines.VAIL, COLORADO - NOVEMBER 8: Vail Health Hospital pharmacy technician Rob Brown gets ready to take mock Covid-19 vaccines out of a thermal shipping container in the pharmacy at the hospital on December 8, 2020 in Vail, Colorado. The mock vaccines are packaged in the thermal shipping containers that uses dry ice to maintain a temperature of between -60 to -86 degrees celsius to keep the vaccines cold. They in turn will be transferred to an ultra-cold freezer to maintain those temperatures. There are only a handful of hospitals that have these very specialized ultra-cold freezers which will limit in the beginning where the vaccines will end up in Colorado. Vail Health Hospital has the capacity to store up to 5,000 doses in its freezer. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Mock drill simulates Colorado's arrival of first Covid-19 vaccines.From one vial of the mock Covid-19 vaccines pharmacists will reconstitute the vaccine to create five doses per vial at Vail Health Hospital on December 8, 2020. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)