Health committee  The answer is no, but we can adjust the schedule to obtain doses next year or the year after that. But can we cancel a contract? There are certain clauses that...when you're referring to AstraZeneca, it is a vaccine approved by Health Canada from a regulatory perspective, so it

Health committee  Maybe I can start, and Iain can chime in. In regard to the COVAX schedule, I think the most recent delivery was already referred to, which was AstraZeneca in the past week or so. The COVAX schedules tend to emerge a bit on short notice, so I don't have an update in terms of wh

Health committee  Mr. Chair, there are a couple of points to make here. There is a contract with AstraZeneca for 20 million doses, and the first deliveries against that were through an exchange that I think members are aware of. As the future unfolds and we get a better sense of what provinces mi

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll make a couple of points, I guess, to start. The vaccine portfolio includes vaccines across three platforms. I think members know that there are four authorized in Canada: the Moderna, Pfizer, Janssen and AstraZeneca vaccines. Pfizer and Moderna make u

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. There are a couple of points, but the shorter answer is that we can't confirm a shipment date just yet because those dates are very much caught up in that ongoing review that Dr. Lucas already mentioned of the Emergent facility. Until that facility is clear

Health committee  Mr. Chair, I will kick that back to Dr. Lucas.

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a couple of things to point out. Number one, we are pressuring Switch Health to improve service, because it is uneven. It's working well in some areas and less well in others. Iain Stewart just mentioned a few improvements, but we continue to work w

Health committee  Number two, I will look at the contract and see what can be tabled. I can't commit to next Wednesday, only because we would have to go through and agree upon redactions with the company. That typically involves review with legal, etc., so it often takes more than a few days. I c

Health committee  I think, Mr. Chair, it's more a matter that we, as the department responsible for procurements, take the contracts very seriously and don't just release contract information without a discussion with the supplier. Industry watches how we handle ourselves in these circumstances, b

Health committee  I can speak to procurement of vaccines, but questions about rollouts and being on track, I think, are probably a better directed to my colleague Iain Stewart.

Health committee  I did not request a scientific opinion.

Health committee  Mr. Chair—

Health committee  That's not a question—

Health committee  All I can add is that the documentation related to the next version of the vaccine has to be submitted to Health Canada.

Health committee  Thank you for your question. In the beginning, we didn't know exactly how long vaccine protection would last, so we negotiated a contract based on two doses per person. We always had a number of options with Pfizer. As I previously said, we have started talking to suppliers abou