Matthew Herder, JSM, LLM, is the director of the Health Law Institute, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University. He is also an associate professor in the Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University.
Canada spent a lot of money on a COVID-19 therapeutic that has been a flop. The deal reflects the financialized state of drug development and the nation-state's failure to stop it.