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Canada’s new pandemic preparedness agency aims to speed up vaccine development – National

By Dylan Robertson

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Posted September 24, 2024 5:41 pm

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The federal Liberals are creating a new agency to beef up Canada’s ability to handle rapidly spreading infectious ********* and protect from future pandemics.

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Health Emergency Readiness Canada is tasked with boosting Canada’s life-sciences sector and ensuring Canadians get faster access to vaccines, medical therapies and diagnostics by accelerating the transition from research to commercialization.

It will co-ordinate efforts between ********* industry and academic researchers as well as with international partners.

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This follows a similar move by the ********* Union to create an agency in 2021 that not only tries to prepare the continent for pandemics, but seeks to learn from mistakes during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Once fully operational it will have an “industrial game plan” to move quickly on research and industrial mobilization if another health emergency like a pandemic is declared.

Canada was not adequately prepared for the COVID-19 pandemic with an outdated and understocked emergency stockpile, and a virtually non-existent vaccine production industry.

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