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The need for speed: How Canada approved five vaccines for COVID-19 in under a year – Humboldt Journal
OTTAWA — In the last four years, Health Canada has approved more than 1,500 new or updated pharmaceuticals.Ten of them are vaccines.Five of those are for COVID-19.Dr….
OTTAWA In the last four years, Health Canada has approved more than 1,500 new or updated pharmaceuticals.
Ten of them are vaccines.
Five of those are for COVID-19.
Dr. Supriya Sharma, the chief medical adviser at Health Canada helping oversee the review process, has never seen anything like the speed with which the COVID-19 vaccines got approved.
“I mean, unprecedented is the one word that we’ve been overusing, but there’s nothing even close to comparable to this,” she said in an interview.
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