The conflict of interest protocols went into effect at the very first meeting on June 16. Everybody was bound by them in all of the deliberations between June 16 and the August 5 announcement. They were being adhered to rigorously.
The announcements on August 5 for Pfizer and Moderna do include declarations of interest, but there were no conflicts.
There's an important distinction between when an interest is declared in the way that Joanne described and the relationship that the Canadian Center For Vaccinology has with CanSinoBIO and many others. It's a research centre of international repute, so there are very many companies that deal with it. To work with it is a declaration of an interest.
It's very important, but it's not a conflict in the sense that Joanne personally benefits in any way from the relationship that her institute and university have with the client. That would be well accepted everywhere.