The Chinese Commies are being bastards... perhaps the Canadian gov't shouldn't have put their faith in the Chinese coming through on a vaccine.
Ya think?
member wilber! Apparently your lil' pardner, member squiggy, thought he was bringing something new... how did he miss the dozen or so prior posts on the same subject?
in any case, some interesting comments have recently come forward from the founder & CEO of CanSinoBIO, Xuefeng Yu. If you don't know, Yu's story in why he originally left China, got his Ph.D. from McGill, then worked 20+ years in the Canadian biopharmaceutical industry... suggests his comments are not politically motivated.
Yu suggests decisions in China on whether to send the vaccine to Canada were “caught in bureaucratic indecision” that occurred right after the Chinese government changed the process for shipping vaccines out of the country subsequent to the signing of Canada's NRC agreement with CanSino. Additionally, there was questioning on the "value add" of the proposed Canadian trial since CanSinoBIO had already completed Phase 1 and Phase 2 trials in China... and, as Yu highlights, Canada lacks a "high disease burden" required for Phase 3 trials:
In citing the comparatively small number of COVID-19 cases in Canada: "Canada is not an ideal place to run phase three"
in any case, CanSinoBIO moved on to sign partnership agreements with companies in Russia, South America and East Africa - where that so-called, "heavy disease burden" suitable for Phase 3 trials exists.
as for the Canadian government's financial support of Canadian companies for vaccine development initiatives:
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Variation Biotechnologies Inc. (VBI),
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Medicago,
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IMV Ltd,
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VIDO-Intervac
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