Vaccines and their widespread usage are hugely important not only here in the United States, but all throughout the world as a whole. As a matter of fact, vaccines have not only improved overall quality of life, but mortality rates as well, saving as many as two and half million lives over the course of a single year. Many vaccinations have been developed, all with the express purpose of preventing diseases that once wreaked havoc on populations all throughout the world, throughout the course of centuries.

In fact, some diseases have been completely eradicated in places where the vaccinations are widespread throughout the population, such as here in the United States. Take polio, for example, for which an effective vaccination has been developed and administered to more than 93% of all toddlers – those children who fall between the ages of 19 months and 35 months – here in the United States. Thanks to the high vaccination rate, polio is no longer the feared disease that it once was, at least here in the United States (though polio still continues to be a dangerous force in a number of other parts of this world).

Vaccinations against the measles have also helped to improve childhood mortality rates, lowering significantly, the number of deaths seen in the population of children all throughout the country. Back in the year of 2000, more than half of a million people died from measles here in the United States alone. By the time that we had reached the year of 2014, a mere 14 years later, less than 200,000 people died of the measles in the United States. This marks a more than 75% drop in measles related deaths here in the United States alone, a drop that has only continued to be more present than ever in the years that have followed since that year of 2014.

And while we all know the importance of vaccinations early in childhood, vaccinations even in adulthood can be hugely important and even lifesaving. Take, for instance, the flu vaccine. Though many people misunderstand the flu vaccine and simply don’t get it because they think, because it is not 100% effective, that it’s not worth getting it at all, the flu can be a nasty illness and having some protection against it is certainly far better than having none at all. In addition to this, getting the flu if you have been vaccinated against it will mean that you suffer from a less severe form of the flu than you otherwise would have, subsequently lowering your chances of developing serious complications as a result of it.

And these complications are certainly to be taken seriously. Since the year of 2010, nearly a million people have been hospitalized for complications from the flu here in the United States alone, developing much more serious conditions like pneumonia or even sepsis, both of which can prove to be life threatening. And close to 100,000 people have died of the flu in this same span of time.

Of course, part of what has made vaccines so widely accessible here in the United States is proper vaccine storage, such as in a medical refrigerator freezer or special vaccine storage refrigerators. The medical refrigerator freezer has allowed for the long term storage of vaccinations, and this medical refrigerator freezer even comes in a wide variety of sizes, such as in the form of the undercounter lab refrigerator and the like. However, keeping this medical refrigerator freezer at the right temperature is very crucial to the continued function of any given medical refrigerator freezer.

Typically, the average scientific freezer or medical refrigerator freezer should not exceed a temperature of 5 degrees Fahrenheit – but should also not dip below a temperature of -58 degrees Fahrenheit. The laboratory refrigerator, on the other hand, should ideally be kept at a temperature of 40 degrees Fahrenheit, with little vacillation in any given direction in order to keep the vaccinations inside in the best possible condition.