Colbert Offers to Store Monkeypox Vaccines in ‘The Late Show’ Studio (Video)
thewrap.comabout that shortage, which explains in part that the United States procures a sizable number of the needed vaccines from Denmark, but said vaccines are live vaccines and require intense cold to keep them useful.
And apparently, facilities in the United States aren’t as cold as the ones in Denmark, which means if the government ordered too many, a lot would go to waste.“So if all the doses were not necessary for the outbreak, their shelf life would be dramatically shortened,” one official told the New York Times.Colbert spent some time lightly poking fun at how the U.S.
has been somewhat unprepared for the demand for vaccines, in part because health officials were taking a ‘wait and see’ approach.
Colbert compared that to a life guard who waits uncomfortably long before rescuing someone drowning.Then he got to the part about how we need colder facilities to store the vaccines, because ours aren’t as cold as the ones in Denmark. “But you know what is as cold?” Colbert joked. “The Ed Sullivan Theater.
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