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Defense Officials Hold COVID-19 Briefing

  • Defense.gov
  • Nov. 24, 2020 | 51:06

Chief Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Rath Hoffman; Kenneth R. Rapuano, assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense and global security; Thomas M. Muir, Washington Headquarters Services director; and Air Force Maj. Gen. Lee E. Payne, assistant director for combat support at the Defense Health Agency, spoke with reporters at the Pentagon about COVID-19-related issues, Nov. 24, 2020.