Logistics expert: Vaccine distribution could mean ‘chaos’ for UPS and other carriers during holiday season - Atlanta Business Chronicle
The U.S. may get a COVID-19 vaccine for Christmas. And that could mean an even more taxing holiday season than usual for UPS.
With encouraging preliminary results from human trials for vaccines developed by Pfizer and Moderna, pharmaceutical companies, government agencies and logistics giants, including Atlanta-based United Parcel Service Inc. (NYSE: UPS), are preparing to execute a complex distribution plan in the shipping world’s busiest season.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease doctor, said he expects the first COVID-19 vaccinations to begin "towards the latter part of December.”
The U.S. may get a COVID-19 vaccine for Christmas. And that could mean an even more taxing holiday season than usual for UPS.
With encouraging preliminary results from human trials for vaccines developed by Pfizer and Moderna, pharmaceutical companies, government agencies and logistics giants, including Atlanta-based United Parcel Service Inc. (NYSE: UPS), are preparing to execute a complex distribution plan in the shipping world’s busiest season.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease doctor, said he expects the first COVID-19 vaccinations to begin "towards the latter part of December.”
