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COVID-19: WHO rejects Canada-made Medicago vaccine over ties to tobacco giant

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The first Canadian-made COVID-19 vaccine by the biotechnology company Medicago has been rejected by the World Health Organization (WHO) because of the company’s ties to tobacco giant Philip Morris.

Philip Morris, the biggest tobacco company in the world, owns one-third of Quebec-based Medicago. The government of Canada invested $173 million in Medicago and its efforts to create a viable, plant-based COVID-19 vaccine.

Canada has a deal for 76 million doses of the vaccine and had planned to donate many to the vaccine-sharing program COVAX. But as Jamie Mauracher reports, this rejection will make that difficult.

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