Sanofi Steps Up To Lend A Hand Producing Pfizer/BioNTech's COVID-19 Vaccine In Europe
Executive Summary
Sanofi will fill and package 100 million doses of a rival vaccine for the European market in 2021 in a sign of how the industry is working to meet an unprecedented demand for COVID-19 vaccines.
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