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Pentagon Issues Guidance Banning Recruits Previously Hospitalized With COVID-19

The interim guidance lumps such hospitalizations in with disqualifying conditions such as asthma, which can be overcome with a waiver. The memo revises a stricter ban that surfaced this week.
U.S. military personnel, seen outside the overflow hospital at the Javits Convention Center in Manhattan last month. The Pentagon has issued interim guidance advising caution pursuing recruits who have been hospitalized previously with COVID-19.

Anyone who has been previously hospitalized with COVID-19 will be medically disqualified from joining the military, according to interim guidance issued by the Pentagon this week. The Department of Defense laid out the recommendations in an internal memo updated Wednesday, after a.

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