Surging demand for eggs used to make vaccines helps hold John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport’s state-of-the-art animal dealing with facility afloat throughout the coronavirus, The Put up has realized.
The Ark at JFK — a $65 million facility used to move massive animals and family pets — is now within the enterprise of transferring some 6,000 eggs every week used for medical functions, together with the flu vaccine, sources mentioned.
“With the lower in quantity on the pet aspect, the egg enterprise helps us hold our individuals employed,” Elizabeth Schuette, managing director of the Ark advised The Put up. “It’s serving to to maintain our enterprise proper now.”
Egg-based vaccines have already been dominated out as a treatment for COVID-19, however drug corporations could also be upping their manufacturing of the flu vaccine to stop hospitals from being overwhelmed if the coronavirus reemerges subsequent flu season, specialists mentioned.
Robert Redfield, director of the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, has been reiterating the significance of getting the flu shot in latest weeks amid rising fears of a double-whammy flu-and-coronavirus epidemic.
“Subsequent fall and winter, we’re going to have two viruses circulating and we’re going to have to tell apart between which is flu and which is the coronavirus,” Redfield mentioned final week.
Demand for medical eggs, that are produced in undisclosed amenities as a matter of nationwide safety, has been unusually excessive this 12 months, agreed Richard Wohlrab, vice chairman of operations at American River Logistics, which tapped the Ark to assist transfer eggs amid surging demand.
“There may be elevated manufacturing of the eggs and a necessity for extra assist to get them on airplanes,” Wohlrab mentioned.
The Ark was in-built 2017 to offer medical and normal look after animals coming in or out of JFK and is utilized by vacationers searching for to stop their pets from sitting in cargo for hours. It additionally offers quarantine providers for race horses, zoo and cattle coming to the US from overseas.
However that enterprise has dried up as a result of stay-at-home orders which have stalled journey. “Proper now we've got the occasional shipments of birds, some horses and these eggs,” Schuette mentioned.
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