Dr. Amy Millikan Bell, Acting Deputy Director, Defense Centers of Public Health, shares her personal story of her battle with COVID-19 and urges that vaccination is the strongest tool to prevent the spread of pan-respiratory diseases and to help avoid serious illness.

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Rear Adm. Brandon L. Taylor, Director of DHA Public Health, discusses how vaccines greatly reduce the risk of severe disease, hospitalization, and death. "An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure." Lets us join Rear Adm. Taylor this year to get informed on how vaccines can minimize the dangers of flu.