RE:RE:RE:WELL FINALLYStevenBirch wrote: Another Canadian covid story as today Trudeau says "one of the things to remember is Canada no longer has any domestic production capacity for vaccines".
That's all.
Trudeau made a statement today that Canada will be behind most of it's allies in procuring the new vaccines supposedly because we do not have a vaccine manufacturing facility in the country.
In the meantime Gov’t of Canada is on the hunt for promising therapeutics. PM Trudeau stated on Nov 24: ‘to keep Canadians safe, we need access to as many potential vaccines and treatments as possible.’ this was at Trudeau’s media address re the purchase of Eli Lilly’s new antibody.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/pm-touts-deal-for-26k-doses-of-covid-19-therapeutic-seeks-to-temper-vaccine-expectations-1.5202350 Canada bought more vaccines per inhabitant than anywhere in the world. But, only one order is local, so most will not be arriving until next year. Trudeau: ‘this puts us at a disadvantage’. So, we will be spending more on therapeutics in the interim.
This article gives link to Health Canada’s Act to procure during Covid. If a foreign authority approves a therapeutic, Health Cda will approve if ‘the Minister has sufficient evidence to support the conclusion that the benefits associated with the drug outweigh the risks....and the necessity of addressing the urgent public health need related to Covid’.
One therapeutic! From one of the big money pharma's.
I wonder if he has heard of Ifenprodil from the Canadian firm AGN or CYDY with Vyrologic from the U.S?
Also he did not talk about expanded testing that should be done in the meantime.
SONA, a Halifax company, has been trying for about 4 months now to get their rapid test approved but Health Canada is definitely dragging their feet, supposedly because the rapid tests can give more false results than a PCR test - but everybody knows that, and they are to be used in different scenario's - but somehow the people in charge don't seem to understand the concept. Of course our health minister has a B.A. in anthropology and a Masters in Public Administration so we are depending on the background people to be providing the direction. It's just that there appears to be an urgency that is being somewhat overlooked.