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White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha and White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will brief reporters Thursday after President Biden tested positive for COVID-19.
First lady Jill Biden, who is in Detroit on Thursday, said the president is "doing fine" and "feeling good," after testing positive for the virus. It's the first known time the president, who is fully vaccinated and double boosted, has contracted COVID-19.
The 79-year-old president has begun taking the antiviral treatment Paxlovid, according to Jean-Pierre. While he waits out the virus, the president is isolating at the White House residence "and "will continue to carry out all of his duties fully during that time," Jean-Pierre said.
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.