[Newsbot]

Title: Extra Canadian flu vaccine sent abroad
Category: Health
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2009-11-04 09:15:33
Canadian

[Choban]

Meanwhile the provinces and certain groups are arguing over who gets priority

[ponygurl]

a "bottling issue"????


Fuck a duck.

[Scape]

Logistics, ain't it grand?

[ridenrain]

Politics..

$1:

Meanwhile, critics blasted the Conservative government Tuesday for going to only one company for the H1N1 vaccine.

If Canada, like the U.S., used multiple vaccine suppliers, critics charged, the country might have avoided the bottlenecks that formed while trying to get the vaccine out to Canadians.

"Getting 50 million doses from one company is like trying to fill 50 million cups of water from the same tap," accused NDP health critic Judy Wasylycia-Leis.

Canada's H1N1 vaccine is made exclusively by GlaxoSmithKline, which signed a 10-year contract in 2001 with the then-Liberal government to develop and produce enough vaccine for the entire population in the event of a pandemic.

The contract was awarded to Shire BioChem, a company that gave $57,000 to the Liberal Party in 2001. The company has since been bought out by GSK, but the contract remained valid since it secured the Ste. Foy vaccine production facility.

Aglukkaq said the agreement has worked well.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/s ... hub=Canada

[ponygurl]

"Aglukkaq said the agreement has worked well."


Tell that to the parent who buries a kid because their city ran out of vaccine.

[ridenrain]

Tell that to the previous government who bound us to a 10 year contract.
Maybe you could mention the political donation they recieved while your at it.