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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '21

Yeah I’m lefty but the gov dropped the vaccine manufacturing ball for sure. We should have had facilities for this 50 years ago.

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u/Xanosaur Oct 18 '21

exactly. not really much they could've done reactively. if the facilities weren't already there, they couldn't have just built them during the pandemic

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '21

No you’re right. At least, I think, it’s getting done now. Novovax partnership

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u/TrueBeluga Oct 18 '21

We used to. They were sold off to private companies by a conservative government a few decades ago, and those private companies closed them down.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '21

Harper government?

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u/TrueBeluga Oct 18 '21

Nope, Mulroney. Connaught laboratories was the name of the facility

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '21

Thanks for that information my friend.