{"id":34500,"date":"2021-04-27T11:34:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T18:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=34500"},"modified":"2021-04-28T11:35:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T18:35:14","slug":"white-house-no-decision-yet-on-vaccine-patent-waiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=34500","title":{"rendered":"White House: No decision yet on vaccine patent waiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House, under pressure from progressives in Congress, has for weeks been declining to outline its position on a patent waiver for COVID-19 vaccines that backers say would boost global access.<\/p>\n<p>But White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki elaborated more than usual on Tuesday on the considerations the administration is weighing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our focus is on maximizing production and supply for the world at the lowest possible cost and there are a lot of different ways to do that,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s one of the ways,&#8221; Psaki added, referring to the waiver. &#8220;But we have to assess what makes the most sense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She pointed to the strong manufacturing capabilities for vaccines already in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to evaluate whether it&#8217;s more effective to manufacture here and provide supply to the world or the [intellectual property] waiver is an option,&#8221; she said. &#8220;There has not been a recommendation made from the [U.S. Trade Representative] nor has the president made a decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House, under pressure from&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34501,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34500\/revisions\/34501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}