Stanley Erck, Novavax CEO (Lee Jin-wook/Yonhap via AP Images)

No­vavax dou­bles down on promise to pro­duce 2B Nu­vax­ovid dos­es — this year

If there’s one thing No­vavax ex­ec­u­tives want­ed to push across in the com­pa­ny’s 2021 Q4 earn­ings call Mon­day, it’s that, af­ter months of strug­gles, it is in a po­si­tion to man­u­fac­ture 2 bil­lion dos­es of its Covid-19 vac­cine.

CEO Stan­ley Er­ck, CMO Fil­ip Dubovsky and chief busi­ness and com­mer­cial of­fi­cer John Trizzi­no ham­mered that home to in­vestors in the com­pa­ny’s call Mon­day. It’s a po­ten­tial bright spot, fi­nal­ly, af­ter man­u­fac­tur­ing is­sues af­fect­ing the pu­ri­ty of the drugs had left a huge de­fi­cien­cy in the world’s sup­ply of Covid-19 vac­cines to low­er- and mid­dle-in­come coun­tries through the CO­V­AX pro­gram.

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