COVID-19 pandemic.The bad news is, that support could melt away like an ice cube on a summer’s day as details of how the government may have mishandled the procurement of the much-anticipated vaccines unfold.
Will Canada lag behind on coronavirus vaccines? It’s complicated, experts say Let’s be clear: Canada no longer has the infrastructure to manufacture vaccines in mass quantities because past governments, both Liberal and Conservative, stood by while our pharmaceutical industry was bought out by foreign entities or just wilted away because of lack of government support.We still have some capacity, but why didn’t we ramp up our limited production facilities in anticipation of a vaccine?The major suppliers, the United States, Germany and.