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Why Truck Drivers Should Be Next in Line for the Vaccine – Men’s Health

Those who are essential in delivering the COVID-19 vaccine should be a priority.​

Truck drivers were certainly essential enough to society that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration lifted restrictions on the number of hours that drivers could work back on March 13—the first time they had done so since the restrictions were put in place in 1938.

“We’ve been working long days and long weeks since March,” said Dale Pink, a 50-year-old UPS driver in Harrington, Delaware. “It’s been peak season for nine months.”

“These workers have been on the front lines from the very beginning, working long hours to keep the supply-chain running, and continue to do so,” said Denis Taylor, the Director of the Teamsters Package Division.

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Moderna Vaccine Arrives At UPS Worldport – WFPL

Two truckloads of the Moderna vaccine arrived in Louisville Sunday morning at UPS Worldport.

Each semi had hundreds of boxes of the vaccine, according to a pool report. One of the first batch of packages will be delivered locally while UPS will transport the rest elsewhere.

UPS spokesperson Jim Mayer said both this vaccine and the Pfizer vaccine that started shipping last week are temperature-controlled, and UPS is familiar with handling critical medical deliveries. But these packages are different because they’re closely monitored by the Health Care Command Center.

“The command center gets information from the trackers in each box, showing temperatures and any other parameters,” he said.

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UPS driver finds frozen man in Cambridge Township – Lenconnect

The body of an 80-year-old man was found frozen in front of his house Wednesday by a UPS employee.

Lenawee County Sheriff’s Office dispatchers received a call at about 6:15 p.m. from the UPS employee about a person in the roadway outside his residence in the 400 block of Knapp Road in Cambridge Township and dispatched emergency personnel, according to Michigan State Police Detective Sgt. Larry Rothman.

State police troopers arrived at the scene and found Richard Theodore Kokochak lying in a curved driveway close to his car.

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FedEx, UPS mobilize to deliver Moderna COVID vaccine – Freight Waves

Five times as many deliveries scheduled under different distribution strategy than used for Pfizer

FedEx Express and UPS are mobilizing their delivery networks to begin shipping Moderna Inc.’s COVID-19 vaccine after the Food and Drug Administration late Friday issued an emergency use authorization.

In a repeat of last week’s schedule for the first release of Pfizer Inc.’s vaccine, FedEx and UPS trucks are expected to begin rolling out of distribution centers on Sunday with boxes of vaccine packed in dry ice. Dosing sites will begin receiving vaccines on Monday.

Distribution has already begun.

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UPS Continues Support Of COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution

UPS partners with McKesson to transport and deliver the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine

UPS continues its involvement with COVID-19 vaccine delivery efforts through a partnership with global pharmaceutical and medical supply distributor McKesson. Through contracts with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response to support Operation Warp Speed, McKesson is the centralized distributor for non-ultra-frozen COVID-19 vaccines and ancillary supply kits. Under its agreement with McKesson, UPS will begin delivering Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, which today received a U.S. Food and Drug Administration Emergency Use Authorization.

“This is a critically important initiative for UPS, and we are committed to delivering what matters for as long as it takes,” says Carol Tomé, CEO of UPS. “McKesson is a valued UPS Healthcare partner, and we will continue to leverage the strength of our network to safely and efficiently get these life-saving vaccines and supplies to their final destination.”