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Maker of latest experimental vaccine not expected to seek authorization until June at the earliest Carolyn Y. Johnson © Dado Ruvic/Reuters The coronavirus vaccine being made by Novavax would represent the first shot the company has brought to market if regulatory approvals are secured. (Dado Ruvic/Reuters) A 34-year-old Maryland biotechnology company that has never successfully launched a vaccine faces a world impatient for more coronavirus shots to quell a pandemic — but the wait isn’t over. Novavax, bolstered by $1.6 billion in federal funding, is unlikely to see...

Maker of latest experimental vaccine not expected to seek authorization until June at the earliest May 10, 2021 Email A 34-year-old Maryland biotechnology company that has never successfully launched a vaccine faces a world impatient for more coronavirus shots to quell a pandemic – but the wait isn’t over. Novavax, bolstered by $1.6 billion in federal funding, is unlikely to seek emergency use authorization for its coronavirus vaccine in the United States until June at the earliest, according to four people who have recently been briefed on the company’s plans. As supplie...

Viruses mutate all the time, including the coronavirus that’s caused the global Covid-19 pandemic. Although most of the changes are innocuous, several mutants have sparked alarm, and three variants that emerged in the U.K., South Africa and Brazil have caused particular concern as they spread worldwide. Studies suggest they are more contagious, and some evidence points to one of them being more deadly and another driving reinfections. Vaccine developers are working on new versions after early da

Viruses mutate all the time, including the coronavirus that’s caused the global Covid-19 pandemic. Although most of the changes are innocuous, several mutants have sparked alarm, and three variants that emerged in the U.K., South Africa and Brazil have caused particular concern as they spread worldwide. Studies suggest they are more contagious, and some evidence points to one of them being more deadly and another driving reinfections. Vaccine developers are working on new versions after early da

— John P. Moore and Ian A. Wilson, professors of medicine and immunological research “The war to end all wars.” That’s what they called World War I. The conflict and its novel, unrelenting horrors — gassings, aerial bombings, death and mutilation on an unprecedented scale and shell shock — had sickened even the most jaded observers of human brutality. So, a world without war became the preeminent hope of the ensuing decade. Woodrow Wilson used the idea of perennial peace to promote the creation of the League of Nations, the precursor to today’s United Nat...