Canadian COVID Vax Comes Forward

By Wayne Koberstein, Executive Editor, Life Science Leader
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Should the concept of a COVID vaccine coming from Canada surprise you? Not if you know a little history.

Once upon a time, there was a little Canadian company that played a big role in supplying vaccines to the United States. Connaught, with its location in the Pennsylvania Poconos, developed and produced much of the vaccine inventory for the U.S. before and after its acquisition by the French company Pasteur Mérieux, later acquired by Aventis and then integrated into Sanofi. Yes, long before the Warp Speed race, vaccines were a global business more characterized by collaboration than competition. In concert with its national regulator, Health Canada, IMV, Inc. could make world history with its approach to COVID vaccination.