The UK, the US, Russia and China all kind of got their own vaccine. France failed trough Sanofi and the Pasteur Institute
Link (in french) gives more details than the free excerpt published in ParisMatch website teasing an exclusive lengthy investigation in their weekly magazine
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"Foolish internal jealousies, a series of maneuvers and a series of clumsiness would have ended up annihilating the work of researchers. This is why Pasteur is silent"
"Witnesses recount rather surprising facts. One morning, for example, a researcher realizes that the mice on which the pretests are carried out have disappeared. It is therefore necessary to bring in new mice and restart the testing phase, which slows down the process.
Nicolas Escriou ends up officially joining the project management team. According to certain accounts, reported by Paris Match, he then posits "as a true commander-in-chief of the ongoing research, ostensibly eyeing his superior, going so far as to suggest that he had better bow". Frédéric Tangy, visibly annoyed, then understands that the Pasteur Institute supports the competition opposed by his rival, younger and therefore less close to retirement. A competition which according to him can only be counterproductive.
The rivalry between Nicolas Escriou and Frédéric Tangy becomes so strong that it slows down the development of the vaccine candidate. Weakened by internal maneuvers, the joint project ends up imploding. The two men then go it alone again. In April 2020, Pasteur is forced to make a choice: the results of Nicolas Escriou's vaccine candidate are more promising for the Institute. It is therefore he who is now piloting the V591 project. But in January 2021, Merck throws in the towel. An abandonment which was experienced as a failure for the whole country and which has raised questions about the performance of French research, which has still not succeeded in developing its own vaccine against Covid-19."
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[ 3.9 ms ] story [ 11.6 ms ] threadLink (in french) gives more details than the free excerpt published in ParisMatch website teasing an exclusive lengthy investigation in their weekly magazine
(Google-translated)
"Foolish internal jealousies, a series of maneuvers and a series of clumsiness would have ended up annihilating the work of researchers. This is why Pasteur is silent"
"Witnesses recount rather surprising facts. One morning, for example, a researcher realizes that the mice on which the pretests are carried out have disappeared. It is therefore necessary to bring in new mice and restart the testing phase, which slows down the process.
Nicolas Escriou ends up officially joining the project management team. According to certain accounts, reported by Paris Match, he then posits "as a true commander-in-chief of the ongoing research, ostensibly eyeing his superior, going so far as to suggest that he had better bow". Frédéric Tangy, visibly annoyed, then understands that the Pasteur Institute supports the competition opposed by his rival, younger and therefore less close to retirement. A competition which according to him can only be counterproductive.
The rivalry between Nicolas Escriou and Frédéric Tangy becomes so strong that it slows down the development of the vaccine candidate. Weakened by internal maneuvers, the joint project ends up imploding. The two men then go it alone again. In April 2020, Pasteur is forced to make a choice: the results of Nicolas Escriou's vaccine candidate are more promising for the Institute. It is therefore he who is now piloting the V591 project. But in January 2021, Merck throws in the towel. An abandonment which was experienced as a failure for the whole country and which has raised questions about the performance of French research, which has still not succeeded in developing its own vaccine against Covid-19."