A former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner will lead the Biden administration’s COVID-19 response, including its efforts to quickly vaccinate more Americans as the death toll climbs to new records on a near-daily basis. President-elect Joe Biden’s team announced Friday the choice of David Kessler as the chief science officer for its response to COVID-19, which is caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. Kessler will replace Dr. Moncef Slaoui, a President Donald Trump pick who was asked to resign. Gen. Gustave Perna, the chief operating officer for Trump’s Operation Warp Speed, is expected to stay on. Kessler was commissioner of the FDA from 1990 to 1997. He later became dean of Yale’s medical school before being appointed as co-chair of the Biden transition’s COVID-19 task force. Operation Warp Speed, a major governmental effort to speed up the development of COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics, paid off, with two vaccines receiving emergency …
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