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. 2022 Feb;17(3):20-27.
doi: 10.12927/hcpol.2022.26732.

COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force and Conflicts of Interest

Joel Lexchin  1
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COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force and Conflicts of Interest

Joel Lexchin. Healthc Policy. 2022 Feb.

Abstract
in English, French

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government established a COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force to provide it with recommendations on a wide variety of issues related to vaccines. This article explores how the conflicts of interest of the Task Force members are declared and managed and what the implications are for the advice that they offer to the government. The Canadian government needs to go beyond just managing conflicts and work toward eliminating them on the Task Force.

Au début de la pandémie de la COVID-19, le gouvernement fédéral a créé le groupe de travail sur les vaccins contre la COVID-19, qui avait comme tâche de formuler des recommandations sur une grande variété de questions liées aux vaccins. L'article explore comment les conflits d'intérêts des membres du groupe de travail sont déclarés et gérés et quelles en sont les répercussions sur les conseils qu'ils donnent au gouvernement. Le gouvernement du Canada doit aller au-delà de la simple gestion des conflits et s'efforcer de les éliminer au sein du groupe de travail.

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