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Akiko Iwasaki, Ph.D. (Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Immunobiology and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology; Professor of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology; Yale School of Medicine)

Stephen Jameson, Ph.D. (Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis)

Eugene M. Oltz, Ph.D. (Samuel Saslaw Professor of Infectious Diseases, and Chair, Department of Microbial Infection & Immunity, The Ohio State University College of Medicine)

David Masopust, Ph.D. (Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Minnesota Medical School)

Tania Watts, Ph.D. (Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Toronto)

Ross M. Kedl, Ph.D. (Professor of Immunology & Microbiology, University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine)

M. Michele Hogan, Ph.D., Executive Director (Maryland)

cc: The Honorable Mike Pence, Vice President; Chair, White House Coronavirus Task Force The Honorable Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury The Honorable Richard C. Shelby, Chair, Senate Appropriations Committee The Honorable Nita Lowey, Chair, House Appropriations Committee The Honorable Patrick J. Leahy, Ranking Member, Senate Appropriations Committee The Honorable Kay Granger, Ranking Member, House Appropriations Committee The Honorable Lamar Alexander, Chair, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee The Honorable Frank Pallone, Jr., Chair, House Energy and Commerce Committee The Honorable Patty Murray, Ranking Member Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee; and Ranking Member, Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee The Honorable Greg Walden, Ranking Member, House Energy and Commerce Committee The Honorable Roy Blunt, Chair, Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee The Honorable Rosa L. DeLauro, Chair, House Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee The Honorable Tom Cole, Ranking Member, House Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee Marc Short, Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the Vice President Joe Grogan, J.D., Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy; and Director, Domestic Policy Council

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