case for intellectual property protections to be waived for covid vaccines so they can be manufactured globally, making the case that in this pandemic will not be over until vaccines are globally available. he also said he does the not expect to impose or announce any new vaccine mandates despite the ones that he has issued being tied up in the courts. alicia? alicia: jacqui heinrich in nantucket, massachusetts, thanks. griff: a little more griff: a bit more on that travel advisory. now, travel advisory for eight southern african countries matching that of those that the president announced stopping the flights from. you see them here, south africa, he sew though, botswana, mozambique, namibia and ma law i by. let s bring in dr. marc siegel, fox news contributor, professor of medicine at the nyu langone
holiday sales. the president encouraged shoppers to consider small business shopping this weekend and also tried to quell concerns about the stubbornly high gas prices tweeting: this week we launched a major effort to curb the pice of oil. it will take time, but before long you should see the price of gas drop when you fill up your tank. the president s referring to 50 million barrels released from the nation s strategic emergency stockpile last week. critics said, though, that could not have much of an impact, but the ftc is also investigating the price potential, rather, for price gouging. president said despite wholesale prices falling over the last few weeks, the price at the pump is continuing to remain the same with the supply companies pocketing the difference, and he called that unacceptable and one of the things that he is working on to bring down inflation. arthel? arthel: jacqui heinrich in nantucket, thanks.