
“Professor Kohler says that instead of ‘hoarding’ vaccines, the Canadian government should have realized months ago that without any domestic manufacturing capability, it would be at the mercy of manufacturers and a fierce global competition for doses. ‘Having vaccine sovereignty is critical. Relying on exports for critical health needs doesn’t frankly make sense when we’re looking at trends of nationalism,’ she said. Canada signed a tentative agreement with US vaccine firm Novavax to produce millions of doses of its Covid-19 vaccine candidate at a facility in Montreal. But that production likely won’t begin until late this year at the earliest.”
Canada’s vaccine rollout stalls, confining seniors to their homes for months to come via CNN.