Covid vaccine patent waiver: Joe Biden ramps up pressure on drugmakers
‘Humanitarian Right’“To some extent, this is just Biden and Katherine Tai saying, ‘we really should get more vaccines out there if we can,’" said Simon Lester, associate director at the Center for Trade Policy at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. “And so I think Biden sees this as a way to cater to the progressive constituency that he has."Biden supports a waiver as a “humanitarian right," White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday.
She also tempered expectations.“This is a WTO process, and there will be conversation. This will take time. It’s not going to happen tomorrow or the next day," she said. “It will take a few months before this happens, and we will continue to have the conversation, and also just continue.
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