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Re:Canadians fly south for shot as US demand falls by 1998v2 on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @07:24PM (#27057195)
My best guess:

1. We don't have enough pharma industry to manufacture our own supply. The founder and CEO of the largest Canada HQ'd pharma company was assassinated in 2017 and I'm sure that didn't help.

2. All of the U.S. supply was essentially created under the Trump admin. We were having a mini trade war and enforcing strong border control through that time. In more normal times we probably would have piggybacked on the American supply.

I think that is why our overall progress is more comparable to Europe and not the US.

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Re:Canadians fly south for shot as US demand falls by bckygldstn on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @07:39PM (#27057337)
>The founder and CEO of the largest Canada HQ'd pharma company

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Sherman

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Re:Canadians fly south for shot as US demand falls by blaser-waffle on Thursday May 06, 2021 @10:14AM (#27063516)
Holy shit, billionaire assassinated in his own home, ongoing investigation but no real leads.
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