“The US government has the right to the largest pre-order because it’s invested in taking the risk.”
This file photo taken on December 4, 2017 in Gentilly shows the logo of French multinational pharmaceutical company Sanofi for which French government warned on May 14, 2020 that it would be “unacceptable” 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.
“The US government has the right to the largest pre-order because it’s invested in taking the risk,” Hudson told Bloomberg News. “For us, it would be unacceptable for there to be privileged access to such and such a country for financial reasons,” France’s deputy finance minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher told Sud Radio Thursday.
France’s higher education minister, Frederique Vidal, said Sanofi’s plan to give the United States priority access would be “incomprehensible and disgraceful” since a successful vaccine must be “a public good for the world.”Sanofi’s chief in France, Olivier Bogillot, sought to play down his boss’s comments on Thursday, saying “the goal is to have this vaccine available to the US as well as France and Europe at the same time.
In April, Sanofi joined forces with Britain’s GlaxoSmithKline to work on a vaccine, though trials have not yet started, and any successful treatment would be available toward the end of next year at the earliest.
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