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Government of Canada investments will help advance made-in-Canada vaccines and therapeutics for COVID-19
OTTAWA, ON, March 16, 2021 /CNW/ - Canadians have demonstrated a remarkable ability to mobilize in response to the COVID–19 pandemic. Companies in the biomanufacturing space from coast to coast to coast have answered the call, and the government wants to recognize their work. To date, the Government of Canada has made investments of approximately $1 billion to advance industrial research and development in vaccines and pharmaceuticals, as well as biomanufacturing capacity. We will continue to partner with Canadian industry and businesses to protect Canadians from COVID-19 while building new biomanufacturing capacity as part of our recovery plan.
Dr. Sandro Cinti
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Michigan Medicine COVID Vaccine and Therapeutics Task Force co-chair Dr. Sandro Cinti says it will be a slow start to the vaccination process that will ramp up and get better as they go along.
He says it has not been an easy process establishing exactly how the vaccine will be distributed but says health care personnel with the highest risk exposures will be the first to get the vaccine, which will be done by randomly choosing from those who have indicated they would like to be among the first to get vaccinated.
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After Quebec reported 1,994 new cases of COVID-19 Sunday, a Montreal infectious disease specialist has called for a one-month lockdown that would close schools and all non-essential businesses.
“There’s no solution to control matters other than a drastic solution,” said Dr. Don Sheppard, chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in McGill’s Faculty of Medicine.
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“No small interventions are going to be useful. Asking people to behave is not working.”