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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NotAYakk" data-source="post: 8253252" data-attributes="member: 72555">You misunderstand.  It doesn't matter where it is invented.  It just matters where it is manufactured.As evidenced by this pandemic, materials needed for national security reasons cannot be made in another country.  And health care is national security, and when a pandemic hits, the other country will shut off your supplies.Canada had to literally threaten to black out half of Maine to keep PPE supplies going (it was a very, very polite threat; the fact that Canada powers half of maine was mentioned as part of the high integration of US and Canadian health care systems.  Maine was mentioned because there where 2 hospitals powered by Canadian power there), but lacking a sufficient leverage the USA banned all exports of the vaccines Canada purchased.Canada is aware we share a bed with a drunk elephant.Canada isn't currently making a fuss over that, as we have reason to believe that the effects of that delay will be a few months long, and we have enough supplies from the EU to vaccinate the most vulnerable.  (The EU, unlike the USA, did not shut down vaccine exports; if it had, Canada would be naughty word).  Currently Canada is importing AZ vaccine from the USA; mRNA ones are not being allowed to be exported.  Canada's mRNA vaccines come from Europe.Canada sold off its ability to produce vaccines under a previous government to save a bit of money.  It is rebuilding again; but with the continued threat to global supply lines, Canada should make it a matter of national security.  We'll have domestic manufacturing again by november, part of the plan to deal with the possibility of more embargos.  And this plan should be what every other nation on the planet with enough wealth to afford it should do.</blockquote>

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