Player Embed Code: Download Embed Share Senior Defense Officials Brief Reporters Defense.gov Dec. 9, 2020 | 52:04 Chief Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Rath Hoffman; Thomas McCaffery, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs; and Army Lt. Gen. (Dr.) Ronald J. Place, Defense Health Agency director, brief reporters at the Pentagon on the department’s phased, standardized and coordinated strategy for distributing and administrating COVID-19 vaccines, Dec. 9, 2020.