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Military Medical Leaders Discuss Vaccine Development Against Coronavirus

  • Defense.gov
  • March 5, 2020 | 49:34

These military medical experts will discuss their efforts in supporting the whole of government approach to investigate and develop vaccine candidates against COVID-19, coronavirus, at a Pentagon news conference today: Army Brig. Gen. Michael J. Talley, commander of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command and Fort Detrick, Md.; Army Col. Wendy Sammons-Jackson, director of USAMRDC’s Military Infectious Disease Research Program; Dr. Nelson Michael, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research; and Dr. Kayvon Modjarrad, director of Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, March 5, 2020.