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Canada ordered 9.6 doses per person, and we're substantially behind the US/UK.


Yeah, six months ago I thought Canada would do best because they ordered the most choices. In hindsight I now know they should have ordered less and instead invested in a supply chain for what they ordered. It would have been more of a gamble though. I wonder if they could have built a MRNA plant that could flex to moderna or Pfizer, and similar for the other 4 vaccine technologies (that I can't spell), even though only two are significant so far. (With promising futures for the others )


Considering it's taking 18 months to build a NovaVax plant, I don't think a plan based on domestic production would have helped.


Plants can be built faster if you are willing to pay more.


Canada is spending $170M on this one. I don't think more money would help.




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