If you are a health professional student involved in the preparation and/or administration of the vaccines, it is important to review the relevant sections in the USP COVID-19 Vaccine Handling Guides: Operational Considerations for Healthcare Practitioners.

This guide contains three main topics of information:

vaccine preparation
vaccine storage and transportation
waste minimization and ancillary supply disposal

In the section 'preparation', students will find useful information on basic aseptic considerations when preparing the vaccines and withdrawing the vaccine doses. This includes information about how to maximize the number of vaccine doses withdrawn from the Pfizer-BioNTech vial.

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From the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, two demonstration videos on the preparation of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines for adult and pediatric patients:

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