Image: Niviere David/ABACAPRESS.COM Image: Niviere David/ABACAPRESS.COM THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT has rounded on homegrown pharmaceutical giant Sanofi today after its CEO said a potential COVID-19 vaccine would go to the United States first.
Sanofi’s chief executive Paul Hudson announced late Wednesday that people in the United States would have priority because their government was helping to fund the company’s quest for a coronavirus vaccine. The US health department’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority “work with you on sort of manufacturing at risk much earlier. When it’s hundreds of millions of doses, that’s a risk that we need to share”.
“Equal access to this vaccine for all is not negotiable,” Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on Twitter. “This shows the need to urgently set global rules on these future treatments that will guarantee that tests and treatments will not be patented, and be distributed fairly to all countries,” said Oxfam France, which called Sanofi’s plan “quite simply scandalous”.
“Now is not the time to allow the interests of the wealthiest corporations and governments to be placed before the universal need to save lives,” the signatories said ahead of the World Health Organization’s annual meeting next week.
That is all just what is wrong with the world. Science will only be funded or acted upon if there is money in it for the right people
If you are not immune after catching the virus an injection of an inactive virus is of no benefit. If virus mutates ditto