French failure to develop home-made Covid-19 vaccine prompts questions
Issued on: Institut Pasteur facility, Lille. AFP - DENIS CHARLET 3 min The Pasteur Institute’s announcement that it is to stop further development of one of its potential Covid-19 vaccines, coming on the heels of Sanofi s announcement that its vaccine will be delayed, has raised questions about medical research in France. Advertising Read more
The Pasteur Institute, and the US pharmaceutical giant Merck Sharp & Dohme, which had bought the manufacturing license, announced Tuesday that they dropped the vaccine after disappointing trial results. They say say they are pursuing research on other Covid-19 vaccines.