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Re: Covid Culture (was Outbreak Culture)
« Reply #2295 on: December 06, 2020, 05:24:38 am »
{Liberal} government of Canada secures more Moderna vaccines (now at 40 million doses); signs deal with FedEx to ship doses
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Procurement Minister Anita Anand announced on Friday that “based on the best scientific data available to date, and on the recommendation of the Public Health Agency of Canada and the vaccine task force,” the government has exercised an option within their existing contract, to lock-in the delivery of more doses of the pharmaceutical giant’s vaccine candidate.

Under the deal, Canada was planning to receive up to 56 million doses of its vaccine candidate, but had specifically locked in 20 million of those. That’s now doubled.

As well, Anand said the federal government has signed contracts with FedEx Express Canada and Innomar Strategies for the “end-to-end, COVID-19 vaccine logistics solution,” which is essentially the shipment and delivery contract to distribute vaccines, with the exception of the Pfizer vaccine as that one requires such cold temperatures that the manufacturer is handling the transport itself.

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We're going to get the COVID-19 vaccine in Canada much later and it's because of serious errors by the federal government in not purchasing vaccines sooner — we dithered as a country for so long that we find ourselves towards the back of the queue." — Amir Attaran, University of Ottawa professor of Medicine and Law and an expert in vaccines."

quit spreading the CPC/O'Fool lies, hey Gorgeous!

re: Moderna, as one of the seven vaccine makers the {Liberal} government secured agreements with: on Aug. 5 with Moderna for 20 million doses of its mRNA vaccine, with the option to procure an additional 36 million doses - Moderna's vaccine candidate is currently in Stage 3 clinical trials and preliminary data released two weeks ago showed it appears to be 94.5 per cent effective.

Quote from: Noubar Afeyan, co-founder and chairman of Moderna
Canada is not at the back of the line. Because Canada was among the first countries to make a pre-order with Moderna, the country is guaranteed to receive a certain portion of the company's initial batch of doses — as long as the vaccine proves safe and effective and is given regulatory approval. Discussions to increase orders are ongoing.