Sanofi's HQ is in Paris and the firm has received French state tax breaks

and other essential workers should be treated first, then high risks groups like elderly and folks with other diseases, etc.

The disease will continue to spread. Immunity is not inherited and therefore, future generations will be vulnerable unless the disease is eradicated. EVERYONE needs to get the vaccine within a short (<2 year) window or the chances of the disease mutating to a strain the vaccine is effective against increases with each infection.

the time, which is anyone's guess at this time. Obviously if it is a French company, I expect France would get preferential treatment (as would a US, UK, etc, company).

tactics that the US did.
Intercept all shipments from Sanofi and redirect them to the FrenchCDC.

If the stuff's produced in India and India intercepts the production, (1) the company's not going to stop manufacturing it and (2) the vaccine's interdicted. Problem solved, whingeing won't help.

However, consider http://www.news.sanofi.us/press-releases?item=137015

Now, that's from 2007. I'm assuming it's still open, but it may no longer be the only production facility in the US these days. I think I've heard that Moderna has a plant either done or well along.

From Dec. 2019: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2019/12/09/hhs-invests-modernizing-us-manufacturing-capacity-pandemic-influenza-vaccine.html

Even more recently: https://www.fastcompany.com/90495446/this-company-is-preparing-to-manufacture-100-million-doses-of-covid-19-vaccines

The bit about India wasn't a red herring. If the stuff's manufactured in the US, it's a question of who's around to intercept it.

Oh--and notice that one of the "we need it made here, for Americans" folk was Rick Bright. Chew on that.

There's also the outrage that would be expressed if we send 40 million doses to other places in the world when people's Aunt Sallies and Cousin Seymours were dying in Charlottesville, Oakland, Cleveland, and even in Jacksonville because of a shortage of vaccine in the US. Just as there was apparent outrage when there was the possibility of sending ventilators out of the US.

Sanofi also has production facilities in France., as well--with the proviso that I'm not going to dig around to see what vaccine production facilities they have--I just assume they have them among their sites. https://www.sanofi.fr/fr/nous-connaitre/nos-sites-en-france