Biden chooses former FDA commissioner Kessler to head nation's vaccine effort Laurie McGinley and Amy Goldstein, The Washington Post Jan. 15, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail President-elect Joe Biden during a covid-19 briefing in October by health advisers Celine Gounder, David Kessler, Marcella Nunez-Smith and Vivek Murthy.Washington Post photo by Demetrius Freeman President-elect Joe Biden has selected David Kessler, a close adviser on the covid-19 crisis, to lead the next administration's efforts to accelerate the manufacture, distribution and administration of coronavirus vaccines, the Biden t...