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Senior DOD Officials Brief Pentagon Reporters on COVID-19

  • Defense.gov
  • July 30, 2020 | 40:51

Jonathan Rath Hoffman, the assistant to the secretary of defense for public affairs; Air Force Brig. Gen. (Dr.) Paul Friedrichs, medical advisor to the Defense Department’s coronavirus task force; and Air Force Maj. Gen. (Dr.) Lee E. Payne, the department’s diagnostics and testing lead, brief reporters on COVID-19 updates at the Pentagon, July 30, 2020.