{"id":12497,"date":"2021-02-16T09:24:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T15:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/?p=12497"},"modified":"2025-10-21T13:02:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T19:02:19","slug":"drones-medicos-para-la-distribucion-de-la-vacuna-contra-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/plataformas-digitales\/drones-medicos-para-la-distribucion-de-la-vacuna-contra-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical drones for COVID-19 vaccine distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Companies specializing in drones have created plans for COVID-19 vaccine distribution in different countries. <\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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The approval of the first COVID-19 vaccines late last year brought new challenges for distribution around the world. German and U.S. companies have created drone-based distribution schemes.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Some companies, such as Zipline, are not only in the drone delivery sector, but also in medical deliveries. The company has been working since 2016 in African countries such as Ghana and Rwanda to supply resources and medicines to rural clinics in those countries. In addition, following the pandemic, since last year they also made deliveries of medical protective equipment in North Carolina, on the east coast of the United States.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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The San Francisco-based company is looking to deliver any of the vaccines, as they have built a system that can deliver medical supplies that require low temperatures. The company has even reached out to Pfizer to support efforts to expand access to vaccines in hard-to-reach geographic areas. A few days ago, the company also reported that they will allow drone delivery of COVID-19 vaccines in Kaduna, Nigeria, delivery drone<\/em> after having delivered more than 1 million doses of other vaccines in Africa in the last year.<\/p>

The German company Wingcopter, on the other hand, will perform similar tasks. The company has experience in countries in Africa and Southeast Asia and is now looking to deliver and ship COVID-19 vaccines. Tom Pluemmer, CEO of the Weiterstadt-based company, explained to Reuters that, \"\u201cCOVID is now making it necessary to build it out fast, but once it\u2019s there we will have a new type of infrastructure that could carry things like medication, blood, lab samples and even normal daily goods.\u201d<\/p>

In Malawi this company has started a project in response to COVID-19 called Drone + Data Aid<\/em>, which seeks to improve medical resource supply chains, in collaboration with the German government. Moreover, they have struck a partnership with UNICEF, African Done and Data Academy to train young people in drone operation.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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BLOOMBERG<\/strong><\/p>

https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-02-04\/medical-drone-startup-to-begin-covid-vaccine-delivery-in-april<\/a><\/p>

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REUTERS<\/strong><\/p>

https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-vaccines-drones\/drone-company-wingcopter-gets-more-firepower-in-vaccine-delivery-race-idUSKBN29U214<\/a><\/p>

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CNBC<\/strong><\/p>

https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/02\/04\/role-of-medical-drones-in-global-covid-vaccine-campaign-is-growing.html<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

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REUTERS<\/strong><\/p>

https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-vaccines-drones\/drone-company-wingcopter-gets-more-firepower-in-vaccine-delivery-race-idUSKBN29U214<\/a><\/p>

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MOBIEHEALTH NEWS<\/strong><\/p>

https:\/\/www.mobihealthnews.com\/news\/emea\/germanys-wingcopter-raises-22m-distribution-covid-19-vaccines<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Compa\u00f1\u00edas especializadas en drones han creado planes para distribuci\u00f3n de vacunas COVID-19 en distintos pa\u00edses. La aprobaci\u00f3n de las primeras vacunas contra COVID-19 a finales del a\u00f1o pasado signific\u00f3 nuevos retos para la distribuci\u00f3n de las mismas alrededor del mundo. Compa\u00f1\u00edas alemanas y estadounidenses han creados esquemas de distribuci\u00f3n a trav\u00e9s de drones. Algunas compa\u00f1\u00edas, como Zipline, se encuentran no solo en el sector de entregas a trav\u00e9s de drones, sino en entregas de productos m\u00e9dicos. La compa\u00f1\u00eda trabaja desde 2016 en pa\u00edses africanos como Ghana y Ruanda, para surtir recursos y medicinas a cl\u00ednicas rurales de dichos pa\u00edses. Adem\u00e1s, tras la pandemia, desde el a\u00f1o pasado tambi\u00e9n realizaron entregas de equipo de protecci\u00f3n m\u00e9dico en Carolina del Norte, en la costa este de Estados Unidos. La compa\u00f1\u00eda con sede en San Francisco, busca realizar entregas de cualquiera de las vacunas, ya que han construido un sistema que puede realizar entregar de insumos m\u00e9dicos que requieren de bajas temperaturas. Incluso esta compa\u00f1\u00eda ha logrado acercamientos con Pfizer que apoya los esfuerzos de expandir el acceso a las vacunas en zonas geogr\u00e1ficas dif\u00edciles de alcanzar. Hace algunos d\u00edas la compa\u00f1\u00eda tambi\u00e9n inform\u00f3 que, en Kaduna, Nigeria permitir\u00e1n el drone delivery de vacunas contra COVID-19, tras haber entregado m\u00e1s de 1 mill\u00f3n de dosis de otras vacunas en \u00c1frica en el \u00faltimo a\u00f1o. Por otra parte, la compa\u00f1\u00eda alemana Wingcopter, realizar\u00e1 tareas similares. Esta compa\u00f1\u00eda tiene experiencia en pa\u00edses de \u00c1frica y del Sudeste de Asia y ahora busca realizar tareas de entrega y env\u00edo de vacunas contra COVID-19. Tom Pluemmer, director Ejecutivo de la compa\u00f1\u00eda con sede en Weiterstadt, explic\u00f3 a Reuters que: \u201cCOVID ahora hace que sea necesario construirlo r\u00e1pidamente, pero una vez que est\u00e9 all\u00ed, tendremos un nuevo tipo de infraestructura que podr\u00eda transportar cosas como medicamentos, sangre, muestras de laboratorio e incluso art\u00edculos diarios normales\u201d. En Malaui esta compa\u00f1\u00eda ha comenzado un proyecto en respuesta a COVID-19 llamado Drone + Data Aid, que busca mejorar las cadenas de suministros de recursos m\u00e9dicos, en colaboraci\u00f3n con el Gobierno de Alemania. Por otra parte, han logrado una asociaci\u00f3n con la UNICEF, African Done y Data Academy para entrenar a j\u00f3venes en la operaci\u00f3n de los drones. BIBLIOGRAF\u00cdA BLOOMBERG https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-02-04\/medical-drone-startup-to-begin-covid-vaccine-delivery-in-april \u00a0 REUTERS https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-vaccines-drones\/drone-company-wingcopter-gets-more-firepower-in-vaccine-delivery-race-idUSKBN29U214 \u00a0 CNBC https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/02\/04\/role-of-medical-drones-in-global-covid-vaccine-campaign-is-growing.html \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 REUTERS https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-vaccines-drones\/drone-company-wingcopter-gets-more-firepower-in-vaccine-delivery-race-idUSKBN29U214 \u00a0 MOBIEHEALTH NEWS https:\/\/www.mobihealthnews.com\/news\/emea\/germanys-wingcopter-raises-22m-distribution-covid-19-vaccines<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,153],"tags":[145],"class_list":["post-12497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comunidades-conectadas","category-plataformas-digitales","tag-noticias"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}