Why are we putting all our eggs in an American basket? Trump is no more trustworthy than the Chinese. The AstraZeneca vaccine has been the front runner from the beginning because of the Jenner Institute's MER"S research. It will also be produced at cost. We may be looking at other vaccines but by the time we make up our minds we will be at the bottom of the list. It is only smart to invest in as many of these as possible because the countries that get them first will have their economies recover first. The sooner we get an effective vaccine the sooner we will be able to stop pouring money into things like CERB.
It's a poor reflection on Canada that it can't even produce vaccines under license. I'm not being political because all our governments have allowed that to happen.
again, you don't know... what you don't know!
As has been stated formally by the Canadian government, details of the 2 signed contractual agreements haven't been released because ongoing negotiations continue with other manufacturers/candidates. You don't know if Canada has, or hasn't, secured the ability to produce the 2 respective vaccines under license... you don't know!
in any case, Canada... so far... has secured agreements with 2 of the 6 manufacturers that currently have candidates in Phase 3 clinical trials... and the agreement for the BNT162 mRNA-based vaccine candidate was signed with both, separately, Germany's BioNTech & Pfizer. By the by, are you okay with signing an agreement with a Chinese manufacturer - yes?
waldo offers hairOnFire member Wilber a tidy summary accounting of those current Phase 3 candidate vaccines - as well as a snapshot of current in-progress Canadian initiatives: