targeted at democratic politicians during december and january. just over the last few weeks. we first learned of the shootings at five homes and offices belonging to county commissioners and two state senators and new mexico s newly elected democratic attorney general. then we learned that there is also been an additional shooting at the house of the incoming speaker of the new mexico state legislature. we have since learned some additional details about the shootings targeting individual democratic politicians. it is alarming, it is not an individual pot shot here in there. for example, on december 4th, it was a shots that were fired into a home of one democratic count county commissioner in new mexico. that was december 4th. then on december 11th, it was 12 bullets that were fired into the home of a county commissioner, again, this is all in new mexico, all democrats. december 4th at one politicians home, he s a county commissioner, a shots fired into his home. a week l
pictures of china. one of the major reasons for us not looking like that is because of the vaccines we have. dr. kessler, you ll be remembered in history among a lot of other things that you ve done in your career. the only person who served as fda commissioner for two different presidents. you are incredibly important on things like tobacco, nutrition, hiv, aids. in fighting this pandemic. you will be remembered specifically for having been responsible for keeping president biden from getting infected with covid before there were vaccines in that first debate. in september of 2020, you will be remembered for leading the task to get 100 million doses in the first hundred days. hundred million vaccine doses distributed in the first hundred days of president biden s term, those things saved interval but i worry now when i look at
i think we are in a different place. if you haven t had your by the end booster, get it. if you are eligible for anti viral, if you get covid, take it. we have to be working together. this virus is not done with us yet. dr. kessler, in terms of those treatments, we have seen monoclonal antibodies become less effective as the virus has mutated. should we have confidence that as the virus continues to evolve globally, that we will continue to have antiviral treatments that help us, that reduce the hospitalization rates and keep people from dying once they do get infected? we have a very effective treatment on the market, it is not perfect, no doubt in my mind we have to do everything we can to get another antiviral as soon as we can, just you have it. there is no guarantees in this business. you and i live through the
wildfire, if we start facing anything like they re looking at china in our new future. will we be able to bounce back nimbly and handle it? joining us now is someone who for the last several years has been an absolute center of these questions, dr. david kessler, the chief science officer from the biden administration s covid response. he will be an agile for just a little bit longer. dr. kessler has announced that he will be leaving his post at the biden administration s are. this week he joins us now to talk about it. dr. kessler, thank you so much for being here. i know you don t do a ton of interviews, it makes me all the more thankful that you choose to be here, thank you sir. thank you, rachel. talk to me about the decision to step down and the timing to do so now. is the fact that you are leaving now linked to that expected and of the emergency declaration? does it indicate that the white house is on a new footing when it comes to covid? no, i think the commitment is there
it was david kessler as biden s covid adviser who insisted that they be that far apart. that they had to be at least 13 feet apart from each other when they were standing at the podiums at the debate. i think that david kessler insisted on that. you will recall, that debate was on tuesday. by thursday night that week, trump had tested positive for covid. friday, he was hospitalized with it and profoundly ill. despite having stood on the debate stage with him just two and a half days before, biden can get it from trump. by all accounts, trump nearly died from it. after president biden beat trump in a 2020 election, it was dave kessler who led the covid response during the transition. it was doctor kessler who went on to be the chief science officer advising president biden on covid for these first two years of his presidency. dr. kessler hopes at the goal of administering 100 million vaccine shots in present biden s first hundred days in office. they hit that goal by march of 2021. as