Pfizer rival, Sanofi, to help deliver 100 million vaccine doses
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That’s what
will happen after Sanofi announced it aims to fill and pack 100 million doses
of competitor Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine in the latter half of 2021.
Sanofi’s CEO,
Paul Hudson, shared the news with Le Figaro newspaper yesterday. The French
drug company last month revealed that its vaccine candidate didn’t offer sufficient
immune response in older people, which led to the delay of its launch to later
this year.
“Since our main
vaccine is a few months late, we asked ourselves how we could be of assistance
now,” Hudson was quoted as saying.
Pfizer and its
German partner BioNTech, and other vaccine manufacturers, are struggling to
meet the demand for the drugs as the world continues to battle the pandemic.
