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Washington- Puerto Rican Lester Martínez López, a family physician and retired U.S. Army Major General, assumed the role of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic emergency was still not over, a crisis that not even Pentagon could avoid.