With 36 confirmed cases and 11 deaths, the #Marburg outbreak in Rwanda🇷🇼has now surpassed the eponymous 1967 outbreak in Marburg, Germany (plus Frankfurt and Belgrade), which had 31 cases and 7 deaths.

New interview with the head of Canada's publicly-owned Biologics Manufacturing Centre (BMC) tactfully avoids any questions about the #Novavaxbmc-cppb.ca/news/article...

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It’s depressing to see Canadian R&D (and scientific talent) left on the table like this. It could be our greatest glory & gift to the world. We need to get better at investing in and capitalising on Canadian ideas and innovation - could be globally transformative.

ARhealthlawadamh.bsky.socialSep 27, 2024 6:36pm

Just days after Canada🇨🇦launched a new agency, Health Emergency Readiness Canada (HERC), there's #Marburg in Rwanda🇷🇼. 🇨🇦invented a promising vaccine candidate nearly 20yrs ago, but (like Lassa & Ebola-Sudan candidates) it remains unfinished. Will HERC fill this gap getting🇨🇦innovation to the world?🤔

Just days after Canada🇨🇦launched a new agency, Health Emergency Readiness Canada (HERC), there's #Marburg in Rwanda🇷🇼. 🇨🇦invented a promising vaccine candidate nearly 20yrs ago, but (like Lassa & Ebola-Sudan candidates) it remains unfinished. Will HERC fill this gap getting🇨🇦innovation to the world?🤔

New 📖 from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: "The Trudeau Record: Promise v. Performance" (feat. my chapter "Calling the shots: Canada's Big Pharma-first response to COVID-19") policyalternatives.ca/publications...

Book launch 📖🚀 of "Pandemics, Public Health, and the Regulation of Borders" this coming Wednesday, featuring me, plus @deonandan.bsky.social@roojin.bsky.social (and some nice folks who aren't on bluesky). Not only free, but there's even lunch!

If only you had some way of conveying your timeline for doing so...

Thanks to CBC's As It Happens for having me on to talk about Canada and #mpoxwww.youtube.com/watch?v=v6fT...www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Hzv...www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

A parent’s fight to make big concerts safe from attacks | As It Happens with Nil Köksal, Chris Howden | Live Radio | CBC Listen

Plus: “It was like having the Mona Lisa in your living room.” Except it was a portrait of Winston Churchill. And it was stolen. Also: Astronaut Dave Williams on the Polaris Dawn space walk and why he thinks people will be living full time on the moon within 50 years; a Newfoundland mayor tells us why he padlocked the doors to the local church; and we revisit the Ig Nobels…which celebrate "achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think."

Great Canada is considering sharing, disappointing they haven't already done so, while doses from🇪🇺🇺🇸have already arrived. Would be great if🇨🇦would lead, not follow, on #VaccineEquity#mpoxwww.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...