Operation Warp Speed commits $1.6 billion to Covid-19 vaccine maker Novavax
(WorldNews Health)

`Operation Warp Speed,` the federal government`s Covid-19 vaccine program, on Tuesday announced the largest government Covid-19 vaccine contract to date -- a $1.6 billion contract with Novavax, a Maryland biotech company. `It speaks to the confidence that they have in our platform to be able to develop a vaccine,` Stanley Erck, Novavax`s president and CEO, said Monday in an interview with CNN. E rck said Novavax`s vaccine could be on the market by the first quarter of next year. Novavax is the fourth company to receive federal funds...