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Department Of Defense Press Briefing by Jonathan Hoffman, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs

JONATHAN HOFFMAN: All right. Good afternoon, everyone, although you guys have been getting multiple on-camera and on-record briefings today. I know today has been a busy day. I thought it would be useful today to take a step back and look at the last couple of months as we've confronted COVID-19 here at the Department of Defense. I also want to provide an update on the Department's actions to surge our personnel capabilities and equipment to fight the pandemic. So, we've been working this since January. So, in late January, General Abrams at USFK was initially confronted with the novel coronavirus and made us all aware back here of the potential implication on our forces. On January 29th, DO...