Giving the U.S. priority access to a Sanofi vaccine against the new coronavirus would be ¡°unacceptable,¡± a French government minister said.
¡°For us, it would be unacceptable that there be privileged access for this or that country on a pretext that would be a financial pretext,¡± Junior Economy Minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher said in an interview Thursday on Sud Radio.
The U.S. will likely be first in line should Sanofi succeed in developing a vaccine because the country was the first to fund the French company¡¯s research, Chief Executive Officer Paul Hudson said this week in an interview with Bloomberg News. The U.S., which expanded a vaccine partnership with the company in February, expects ¡°that if we¡¯ve helped you manufacture the doses at risk, we expect to get the doses first,¡± Hudson said.
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