Top U.S. General: Proposed COVID-19 Recruiting Ban 'Has Not Been Approved'

The nation's top military officer says an internal Pentagon memo suggesting all recovered COVID-19 patients would be ineligible to join the military 'has not been approved' and 'got out there by accident.'

Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, attends a media briefing earlier this year at the Pentagon. He told NPR on Thursday that the U.S. military is still considering"a whole series of protocols" when it comes to the coronavirus.Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images

"But that has not been approved," he added."That got out there by accident, as sometimes documents do."

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