Production benchmarks
PATHOLOGY
We set the following a priori benchmarks from surgery to vaccine manufacture: (1) transport specimen from operating room to pathology in ≤5 min; (2) fix specimen in formalin and embed in paraffin in ≤15 min; (3) select blocks for vaccine production in ≤2 days; (4) ship to BioNTech in ≤72 h; (5) produce vaccines in ≤6 weeks; (6) administer first dose of the vaccine in ≤9 weeks.