4 Washington Nationals players and 8 staff members test positive for COVID-19
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Four Washington Nationals players and eight staff members have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the team's manager, forcing Major League Baseball to cancel the team's game against the Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday.
Dave Martinez, the Nationals' manager, announced the positive COVID cases in a news conference Wednesday. Martinez said shortstop Trea Turner was one of the players who tested positive and said only one of the positive cases came from a person who was not vaccinated. "Some of the guys are asymptomatic, some are symptomatic. It's unfortunate this happened but we've got to follow MLB protocols," Martinez said. "I really worry about the health and safety of everybody in our clubhouse, and everybody else who can be affected."Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.