An Historic Moment in the Fight Against COVID Shows Why Cold Chains Are Key to Global Health and Development

<p>On February 24 the very first shipments of a COVID-19 vaccine from COVAX arrived in Ghana. COVAX is the international cooperative effort around the development and distribution safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines. Ghana became the first country to receive COVID-19 vaccines through COVAX when 600,000 doses landed at the airport in Accra. </p> <p>On hand to receive these doses was an old friend of mine, Owusu Akoto. He is the founder and CEO of a Ghanian cold chain logistics company called Freezelink. </p> <p>It was an historic day for COVAX, a hopeful day for Ghana and an exciting moment fo...