LeBron James will return to the court after clearing NBA's COVID-19 protocols
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LeBron James will make his return to the hardwood after clearing the NBA's health and safety protocols, the league announced Thursday. The Los Angeles Lakers superstar was sidelined over conflicting COVID-19 test results earlier this week.
James, 36, was forced to miss Tuesday night's game against the Sacramento Kings after James returned a positive test result. The league said the sample was "re-run twice," returning one negative and one positive result on two separate PCR instruments.
However, James was cleared to play after two PCR tests, which he took more than 24 hours apart, per league rules, came back negative. A second test was "clinically inconclusive."
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.