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OTTAWA — Canada could have done more to boost homegrown COVID-19 vaccines last spring but the federal government and its agencies were too slow and risk-averse when it came to funding, a parliamentary committee heard Monday.
John Lewis, CEO of Entos Pharmaceuticals, said his Alberta company has a vaccine candidate in development but never received the kind of early, up-front funding that the U.S. and U.K. governments put into their own vaccine production.
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