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Video: Defense Leaders Brief on COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution

Dec. 9, 2020

Jonathan Rath Hoffman, assistant to the secretary of defense for public affairs; Thomas McCaffery, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs; and Army Lt. Gen. Ronald J. Place, director of the Defense Health Agency, briefed reporters at the Pentagon on the Defense Department’s strategy for distributing and administering COVID-19 vaccines.

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