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David Kessler has co-led Biden’s COVID-19 advisory board.
(Denis Paquin | AP file photo) Then-Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Administrator David Kessler testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 15, 1995. On Friday, President-elect Joe Biden named Kessler to help lead Operation Warp Speed.
| Jan. 15, 2021, 2:46 p.m.
President-elect Joe Biden on Friday named Dr. David Kessler, who was once an aide to former Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, to help lead Operation Warp Speed, the program to accelerate development and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments.
Kessler, who is both a pediatrician and a lawyer and is former chief of the Food and Drug Administration, has been serving Biden as co-chair of his transition’s COVID-19 Advisory Board.
Vaccine reserve was already exhausted when Trump administration vowed to release it, officials say newsday.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newsday.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
States were anticipating a windfall after federal officials said they would stop holding back second doses. But the approach had already changed, and no stockpile exists.