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Offline waldo

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Re: Covid Culture (was Outbreak Culture)
« Reply #1800 on: August 06, 2020, 11:29:15 am »
Not so. The Oxford vaccine has been the front runner from the beginning because of their MERS research. While Trudeau was having another Kumbaya moment preaching equal distribution of vaccines, other countries have been pro active ensuring their supplies. Canada did nothing.

no - as I read, initial results from the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine showed common moderate adverse effects... when moving into Phase 3 trials, some groups were added to include paracetamol (acetaminophen)... possibly suggestive of a concern for tolerability. As for your "doing nothing", Canada now has agreements with manufacturers of 2 of the 6 'candidate vaccines' that have moved into Phase 3 trials.

Now we are at the mercy  of the US government and American big pharma again. The US secured their 30O million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine on May 20th as Canada sat on its hands. Chinese are holding up research samples of the CANSINO vaccine (Meng again?) If these vaccines are successful will an American government allow their export before US needs are supplied? Don’t expect a Biden administration to be much different from Trump on this issue. The Oxford vaccine will be sold at cost until the pandemic is over, that was a condition of them releasing their research to an industry partner and why they have no US partners. I doubt very much US big pharma will be so generous.

last I was aware, Pfizer is a German company. By the by, the U.S. has also reached additional agreements with the same 2 manufacturers/vaccines that Canada just announced. Something about diversification... cause its too soon to presume upon the eventual first/best candidate as you are doing - ya think!