{"id":666668,"date":"2022-05-22T17:42:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T17:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=206554"},"modified":"2022-05-22T17:42:11","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T17:42:11","slug":"vaccine-patent-shock-as-biden-demands-china-exclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/05\/22\/vaccine-patent-shock-as-biden-demands-china-exclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaccine Patent Shock As Biden Demands China Exclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden Administration says it will veto a global plan to allow countries to ignore patents and make their own Covid-19 vaccines unless the Chinese are specifically excluded, Bloomberg reported.<\/p>\n<p>The sudden move has jolted top health workers who were hoping that the long-promised patent waiver would enable them to make vaccines available to everyone, including in poor countries in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n<p>But the US says it will scupper the whole deal unless China is explicitly excluded from the waiver. In response, China said that it did not wish to be excluded from the pact, but would voluntarily agree not to take advantage of it.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/vaccine-patent-shock-as-biden-demands-china-exclusion\/\">Vaccine Patent Shock As Biden Demands China Exclusion<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/vaccine-patent-shock-as-biden-demands-china-exclusion\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden Administration says it will veto a global plan to allow countries to ignore patents and make their own Covid-19 vaccines unless the Chinese are specifically excluded, Bloomberg reported.<br \/>\nThe sudden move has jolted top health workers who were &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1328,190,304,5722,7979,7988],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666780,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666668\/revisions\/666780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}