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McMaster University and Rapid Dose Therapeutics (RDT), team up with the support of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to create a vaccine strip that dissolve in your mouth; called QuickStrip.

McMaster researchers, biotech firm team up to create vaccine strips that ‘dissolve in your mouth’

ORIGINAL ARTICLE, Desmond Brown, cbc.ca, June 28, 2021

Researchers at McMaster University and a biotechnology firm in Burlington, Ont., are investigating the possible delivery of vaccines via a thin strip “that would dissolve in your mouth.”

It would be similar to a Listerine breath strip, but would be infused with a COVID-19 or another vaccine.

The team at McMaster and Rapid Dose Therapeutics say right now, COVID vaccines such as Pfizer and Moderna must stay within their recommended temperature ranges, from –15 C to –80 C, at all times. That means they rely on a complicated supply chain of freezers and temperature-controlled shipping methods.

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