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Canada needs a proactive pandemic innovation strategy

•Knowing that we will face pandemic risks from well-understood viral families, such as influenza and coronavirus, we could have proactively invented anti-viral drugs that prevent and treat the diseases they cause. Yet no one invested in these efforts. •We are not waiting for others to give us a green light to move ahead: catalyzed by scientific leadership and seed investment from the University of North Carolina and the SGC in 2019, we are creating an international network of interlocked non-profits, VIMI (Viral Interruption Medicines Initiative) in Canada and READDI (Rapidly Emerging Antiviral Drug Discovery Initiative) internationally.

Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains, pictured Jan. 28, 2020, on the Hill, recently applauded Ontario researchers for not only rapidly isolating the COVID-19 virus but sharing it openly with the world. He tweeted: 'Open science is key to global efforts to treat and prevent the spread of COVID-19.' The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
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