COVID-19 vaccine maker Novavax has announced that it will lay off a quarter of its employees as the company faces “substantial challenges” this year amid the easing of the pandemic. Novavax is focusing on “significantly reducing” its expenses while maintaining critical capabilities that are necessary to execute the company’s operating plans, the firm said in…

In its latest update to COVID-19 travel recommendations, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has added six countries to its list of level three “high risk” nations. The July 25 update added Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, El Salvador, Fiji, Honduras, and Poland to the high risk category. The CDC has now added…

Canada’s public health response to COVID-19 pandemic was slow getting off the ground, largely due to complacency and a focus on optics over substance on the part of federal bureaucrats, a health economist says. Livio Di Matteo, a professor of economics at Lakehead University, says Canada’s system developed to provide early warning of infectious disease…