No vaccine before eighteen months, according to the Minister of Research
A possible vaccine against Covid-19 will probably not be available for eighteen months, said Saturday the Minister of Research, Frédérique Vidal, contradicting the President of the United States, Donald Trump, according to which it would be possible to here at the end of the year. “What the laboratories and the researchers are telling us is that the acceleration we have seen in the development of clinical trials gives us hope for a vaccine within 18 months, but that is not reasonable to think that we can go faster than that, except endangering the safety of people “, said Ms. Vidal on Europe 1.
Minister Asked About Donald Trump’s Claims That Had Hoped Hours Earlier “to have [un vaccin] by the end of the year, maybe before “, as he said earlier in early May. For its part, the European Medicines Agency had mentioned Thursday a period of one year, according to a scenario “optimistic”. “Research on the vaccine, everyone is well aware, is something that usually takes several years”, recalled Ms. Vidal.
Furthermore, as the French executive has repeated in recent days, it has ruled “unacceptable (…) to reserve a vaccine for one country rather than another for pecuniary reasons “. A reference to the controversy provoked by the French pharmaceutical group Sanofi, who announced that he would distribute a possible vaccine in priority in the United States, which invested 30 million dollars to support his research.
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