Towards massive vaccine production in France?

“France is about to switch to a massive production of vaccines,” said Thierry Breton, the European Union’s vaccine man, on Sunday, visiting the French site of the German group CordenPharma in Chenôve, in Côte d’Or. , near Dijon. Several contractors from Moderna, Pfizer BioNtech and Johnson & Johnson will start vaccine production in the coming days. The challenge: to put an end to “thirty years of deindustrialisation in the pharmacy sector”, in the words of the Minister for Industry, Agnès Pannier-Runacher.