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Originally Posted by peter12
Just going with what Amir Attaran is saying on his Twitter. You have a source for 1.5 billion doses? I believe that is the AZ one.
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You seriously think the 2nd biggest pharmaceutical company in the world is going to spend billions developing a vaccine that it can only produce 15-20M doses of a year? Really? Anyway, this is from their press release today:
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Based on current projections we expect to produce globally up to 50 million vaccine doses in 2020 and up to 1.3 billion doses in 2021.
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Strong supply chain and manufacturing capacity spread over several nations.
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Yeah, Pfizer/BioNTech and Johnson & Johnson are just mom and pop operations.
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Prove any of the claims in that article wrong. They point to our government's painfully incompetent vaccination purchase strategy. What's changed?
Show me sources.
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Canada has secured the following:
Pfizer (20M doses)
Moderna (56M doses)
Novavax (76M doses)
Johnson & Johnson (38M doses)
AstraZeneca (20M doses)
Several of those companies have already begun a rolling review process with Health Canada so they can be approved as early as possible. Canada is also likely going to import doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine prior to approval so they can be distributed faster. Why would these companies be spending money on this fast tracking in Canada if they weren't going to be selling them in Canada any time soon?
As for where that article is wrong, the author claimed that Canada hadn't actually secured any doses for any vaccines, which was completely false (the Pfizer and Moderna orders pre-dated the article). He also seems to be the source of your 15-20M annual production by Pfizer, so he's either a liar or is grossly misinformed.