PARIS: The French government warned Thursday that it would be “unacceptable” for pharmaceutical giant Sanofi to reserve any Covid-19 vaccine for the United States first, after the firm’s chief said he would give preference to the American market.
Sanofi’s British CEO Paul Hudson said Wednesday that if its efforts to find a vaccine pan out, he would supply the US government first because “it’s invested in taking the risk,” after it expanded a partnership with his company earlier this year. In April, Sanofi joined with Britain’s GlaxoSmithKline to work on a virus, though trials have not even started, and any successful treatment would be available toward the end of next year at the earliest.
But Hudson’s comments drew outrage from French health associations, not least since Sanofi has benefited from tens of millions of euros in research credits from the French state in recent years.
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