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c/coldchain·posted 7 months ago by u/sunday_shot_sal

[Discussion] cold chain is doing more work than we give it credit for

Discussion Well Actually ×7

Right, the data logger question again, but with numbers this time.

I have 2 data points over 32 weeks. The pattern is consistent enough that I do not think it is chance, and boring enough that nobody is going to screenshot it, which is usually a good sign.

The thing I would flag for anyone new: the effect I am describing showed up at week 17, not week 66. People give up long before the interesting part.

Interested in whether this matches other people's logs or whether I am an outlier.

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u/ice_pack_auditMOD19 points·7 months ago

This is an urgent-care question wearing a forum question's clothes. Please contact a clinician rather than waiting for replies.

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u/vito_chowdhury6 points·7 months ago·edited

lane reports need origin, destination, carrier, and actual transit days

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u/zeynep_ndiaye14 points·7 months ago

Not convinced. The evidence does not support that reading.

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u/soren_yildiz25 points·7 months ago

Dead space in the needle hub holds a small but non-trivial volume. On low-volume draws that can be several units.

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u/niels_yilmaz-26 points·7 months ago

Strongly agree. Peak temperature is not the whole story.

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u/britt_okwuosa1 point·7 months ago

the Netherlands to the Netherlands: 16 days with GL Biochem and 6 days with MKM. Same route, different carriers, variance is real.

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u/kian_solberg1 point·7 months ago

time-at-temperature integral is the dose, not just peak temperature

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u/runa_wikstrom7 points·7 months ago

no tracking numbers, no full addresses, no label photos — instant removal

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u/marta_ilunga5 points·7 months ago

Sceptical. If this were true we would see it reflected in the data and we do not.

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u/sunday_shot_salOP3 points·7 months ago

The gel pack lasted 22 hours in a courier van, then liquid. Powder itself fine, the cold chain mostly died in transit.

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u/ice_pack_auditcold chain2 points·7 months ago

lane reports need origin, destination, carrier, and actual transit days

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u/priya_ogunleye7 points·7 months ago

This is the "correlation is mechanism" thing again. You changed three variables at once.

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u/emil_marchand4 points·7 months ago

data logger is the standard, gut feeling is not

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