Golden State Warriors player Andrew Wiggins receives COVID-19 vaccine after NBA denied religious exemption
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Golden State Warriors player Andrew Wiggins has received the COVID-19 vaccine, his coach Steve Kerr said Sunday. Wiggins had applied for a religious exemption, but the NBA said it "reviewed and denied" the request last month.
With more than a week away to the start of the NBA season, Wiggins was among notable NBA players who voiced their resistance to the vaccine. He told NBC Sports in March that he would not get the shot unless he was "forced to." At the team's media day last week, he said he'd continue to stand by his beliefs when it comes to not getting the vaccine.
"Back is definitely against the wall, but I'm just going to keep fighting for what I believe," Wiggins said. "I'm going to keep fighting for what I believe is right. What's right to one person isn't right to the other and vice versa."
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.