The French government has set up a vaccine committee to advise it on current projects. Between changes and political issues, its president, Marie-Paule Kieny, research director at Inserm, takes stock of Release on research into a vaccine against Covid-19.
Do you think, as Emmanuel Macron said this week, that “We have perspectives […] reasonable to have a vaccine in the coming months ” ?
We can be reasonably optimistic, but we must be careful not to be too enthusiastic. The most advanced companies seem to be on schedule. Their data in animals and their first results in humans are encouraging. If everything continues to go well, we may see a vaccine arrive in the first quarter of 2021. The production capacities should be sufficient to supply the quantities needed in the second quarter of 2021. I place myself here in an ideal scenario where one of the vaccines the most advanced functio
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