Vaccines are Canada’s front-line defence

We have always known that vaccines are cost-effective. In an unpredictable world, they are also strategic. Canada is rightly investing in the capacity to build its immune arsenal. The harder question—and the more urgent one—is whether we are ready to use it.
Health Minister Marjorie Michel’s government was right to commit to a biomedical countermeasures initiative as a way to to build sovereign capacity of vaccines and therapeutics, writes Dr. Shelita Dattani. But what good is a sovereign vaccine if we can't get it into the arms of Canadians?

Canada is living through a sovereignty crisis in slow motion, and immunization is at its heart. Trade wars are reshaping supply chains, outbreaks cross borders without warning, and the world has grown more unpredictable. We are spending billions of dollars to defend our sove...

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