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COVID-19 antivirals could be ‘game-changers,’ Kessler says

Biden administration’s COVID CSO says strategies that tamed AIDS could help bring the pandemic under control

September 8, 2021 12:51 AM UTC
Updated on Oct 14, 2022 at 6:10 PM UTC

David Kessler has maintained a low profile in the nine months since President Joe Biden named him chief science officer for the administration’s COVID-19 response. The initiative, started under President Donald Trump as Operation Warp Speed, is now called the Countermeasures Acceleration Group. 

In a conversation Saturday with BioCentury, Kessler emphasized the continuity of the Countermeasures Acceleration Group (CAG) with its predecessor. ...