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As the vaccine race continues, no serum of French origin has yet been submitted to health authorities. However, Gilles Bloch, Chairman and CEO of Inserm (National Institute for Health and Medical Research), assures us that “ In the coming months, we will have a French vaccine “.
A French vaccine against Covid-19
From the first quarter of the year, vaccine candidates have been the subject of scientific research in France, to fight against the coronavirus. For Gilles Bloch, guest of France Info, some choices made at the start were not the best. For example, there were dosing errors in the preparation of the Sanofi vaccine. However, these are events that can happen during industrial development. However, the CEO says that a dozen vaccines are in Inserm laboratories ” And over the next few months we will have a French vaccine that will be released, which will be useful, in the second line, behind the first vaccines that were put on the market. », Without giving a precise date.
Indeed, ” We are in phase 3 clinical trials », Reports Gilles Bloch. And to add that a ” healthy volunteer recruitment network ” has been set up, ” to be able to support manufacturers in the development of these vaccines “.
The search for treatment continues
As a reminder, Inserm is also working to find a treatment against Covid-19: “iWe need to have therapeutic responses for Covid cases and among them the most serious cases “. Gilles Bloch said that Inserm would launch a new treatment trial, in particular with a combination of monoclonal antibodies. According to him, it is “ a track that is followed in several countries simultaneously so France must also be in the race “.