The World Health Organization championed the need for out-of-the-box thinking, but when faced with that very situation, it evoked a 2005 policy, and sentenced a promising made-in-Canada vaccine to death because of a minority link with a tobacco company.
The World Health Organization has championed the need for out-of-the-box thinking on vaccine production and supplies to protect the world.
But the plants used in production are a cousin of the tobacco plant and were supplied by tobacco giant Phillip Morris, which was a minority shareholder.– part of an international treaty that frowned on government partnerships and collaborations with such companies. for emergency use listing," Mariangela Simao, a spokesperson for the WHO, said in a statement to CTV News Montreal at the time.Without WHO’s endorsement, few governments were willing to buy the vaccine. In fact, Canada was the only country that had formally approved the vaccine and agreed to purchase doses.
In a follow-up email to CTV News, Dr. Lee added, “I think the WHO decision not to endorse the vaccine likely crippled the ability of Medicago to secure the kind of large contracts needed for this product to be a success.” Sweanor agrees, saying, “There's got to be a basis for why you oppose the company's cigarette companies, a very strong basis to get mad at them, regulate them, … But if they do something that is actually good, why would we oppose that?
Majaraj also disagrees with the WHO’s decision to refuse to endorse the vaccine, noting the potential wider impact of the decision, beyond the pandemic. Canadian health groups, including the Quebec Coalition for Tobacco Control and Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada, urged Ottawa, the province of Quebec and Medicago itself todue to its tobacco business. The company cut ties with the tobacco maker late in 2022, but by then its fate was sealed.
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