Dr. Anthony Fauci says Biden is "doing really quite well" following COVID diagnosis
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to president Joe Biden, says the commander-in-chief is "doing really quite well" following a recent COVID-19 diagnosis. The White House said earlier this week that Mr. Biden is isolating in the White House and experiencing mild symptoms.
"The president continues to improve," Fauci told "CBS Saturday Mornings." "He's putting in a full day of work virtually and as each day goes by, he's doing fine. So as we've said before, given the fact that he's been vaccinated, doubly boosted, and is receiving Paxlovid — a drug which clearly goes a long way to prevent the progression of disease — we fully expect that he's going to be doing very well."
Fauci said Mr. Biden wears a face mask when he is around others who are "doing things around him for one reason or other," and noted that he follows guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention when not wearing a mask.
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.