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Global COVID-19 deaths climb over 800,000

More than 23 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and over 800,000 have died, according to global trackers on Friday. Global recoveries stand at over 15.6 million. Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019. The United States has suffered the most deaths, followed by Brazil, Mexico and India. Here is a weekly roundup of developments in the coronavirus cases and deaths.

India, the United States and Brazil are the three countries which have registered the biggest number of new infections over the past seven days, with an average of 62,900, 46,700 and 39,600 per day respectively, according to an AFP tally at 1100 GMT on Friday.

Things are improving in the United States and Brazil where cases have decreased by 11 percent compared to the last seven-day period, while there is a slight deterioration of two percent in India.

Next in order come four Latin American states: Colombia (11,400 more cases per day on average), Peru (8,400), Argentina (6,400) and Mexico (5,400), along with Spain on 5,800.

The number of confirmed cases only reflects a fraction of the actual number of infections, with different countries having differing counting practices and levels of testing.

Ethiopia is the country where infections are picking up most, with an increase of 82 percent, or 1,400 new cases a day, among those which have registered more than 1,000 daily cases over the past week.

France follows with an increase of 50 percent (2,900), Spain (48 percent, 5,800), Ukraine (33 percent, 1,800), Bangladesh (28 percent, 3,100), Germany (26 percent, 1,200) and Iraq (20 percent, 4,100).

At the other end of the spectrum, the biggest decreases are in Japan (-25 percent, 900 new cases per day), Panama (-23 percent, 800), South Africa (-22 percent, 3,900), Mexico -12 percent, 5,400) and Chile (-12 percent, 1,700).

By region, the rate of infections is picking up in Europe, with an increase of 15 percent over the previous week, in the Middle East (seven percent), and Asia (two percent). It is dropping in Oceania (-20 percent), the United States and Canada (-11 percent), Latin America and the Caribbean (-six percent), and Africa (-five percent).

At the world level, the pandemic is slowing down slightly, with a drop of two percent, with 255,000 new cases per day.

The United States is the country mourning the most deaths over the past week (1,020 on average per day), before Brazil and India (980 each), Mexico (545), Colombia (290), Peru (200), South Africa (190), Argentina (165) and Iran (160).

The pandemic has killed at least 793,847 people since late December out of more than 22.7 million confirmed cases.

The United States is the hardest-hit country with at least 174,290 deaths. Brazil follows with 112,304, Mexico 59,106, India 54,849, and Britain 41,403.

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Trump Signs Death Certificate For the Teachers of America: And likes it!

OH my GOD as Jimmie use to say as i revealed to him one of their schemes: we have entered the theater of the absurd.

President Trump has issued new guidance to label teachers as “critical infrastructure workers,” which could pave the way for them to return to the classroom this school year. His announcement comes as the latest step in the Trump administration’s push to reopen schools, which they hope will enable students to receive a quality education and allow parents to return to work.

“We believe that we can safely reopen our schools. We know that it’s best for our kids. We don’t want them to fall behind academically, but also we don’t want our kids to miss out on the counseling that they receive. Special needs services, as well as all the nutrition programs that are available just at our schools. Finally, Mr. President, I know that you’ve recognized from early on that getting our kids back to school is first a priority for them, but also it’s important for working families.” – Mike Pence, Vice President of the United States

Keeping exposed teachers in schools raises the risks that they could spread the infection to students and coworkers while showing no symptoms. Studies so far have suggested that infected people may be most infectious around the time they first develop symptoms. Researches have repeatedly found that levels of viral material in the upper respiratory tract are at their highest right around the time when people first notice symptoms. Additionally, some infected people do not develop symptoms but can still harbor similar levels of the virus as symptomatic people, according to several studies. The possibility of exposed teachers staying in classrooms is already alarming teachers’ associations and school administrators. Their concern is likely heightened by a rash of recent reports of schools and colleges that reopened amid the pandemic, only to abruptly close after quickly finding clusters of cases and widespread exposures.

The guidance document at the center of the issue is one published by the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, CISA, and titled “Guidance on the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce: Ensuring Community and National Resilience in COVID-19 Response.” According to the CISA, the guidance aims to “help officials and organizations identify essential work functions in order to allow them access to their workplaces during times of community restrictions.” The guidance was originally issued March 19 and in past versions has identified essential workers in sectors including healthcare, law enforcement, food and agriculture, energy, transportation, water and wastewater, public works, and communication and information technology.

But the fourth and latest version of the guidance, issued August 18, now includes workers in the education sector, including teachers and professors, school administrators and staff, bus drivers, cafeteria workers, and school safety personnel.

Under separate guidance issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, such “critical infrastructure workers may be permitted to continue work following potential exposure to COVID-19, provided they remain asymptomatic and additional precautions are implemented to protect them and the community.” This, according to the guidance, is to “ensure continuity of operations of essential function.” In a statement to the AP, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten rebuked the federal guidances, saying, “If the president really saw us as essential, he’d act like it.” “Teachers are and always have been essential workers—but not essential enough, it seems, for the Trump administration to commit the resources necessary to keep them safe in the classroom.”

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced Monday it is canceling in-person undergraduate classes after a coronavirus outbreak quickly spread across campus.

Mamas don’t let your children go to school….. Home school them instead. You will protect them and your family and it is your real JOB!

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Its Impossible To Seal Your face with toilet Paper Mask

As you can see in the video. Coronavirus particles big and small go in and out and around your JOKE N95 or surgical mask filter. Save yourself, Save your loved ones and save your friends and get them a mask that seals tight around the mouth and nose and the only filter the CERTIFIED P3 R that can seal out even the aerosolized nanoparticle coronavirus.

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The Risk of Infection is in the Air

When a person infected with the coronavirus coughs, speaks or sneezes, a spray consisting of droplets of different sizes and aerosols is generated, which penetrates the room air and then spreads.
All of these droplets and aerosols contain potential viruses. Professor Dr. Martin Kriegel, head of the Hermann-Rietschel-Institut at TU Berlin, is researching how these particles behave – whether and when they sink to the ground, how far they spread, if they remain in the air and where they sediment.
symbolic picture: virus and aerosol © PIRO4D/Pixabay

How long do pathogens remain in the air?

“We are conducting a number of projects to research how long pathogens remain in the air under a wide range of conditions,” says Kriegel. Professor Kriegel’s “Contamination Control” team is performing its research using two clean rooms, several room airflow labs and a research operating theater. To better understand the corona pandemic, the researchers are examining to what extent the spread of the virus is affected by the composition and size distribution of the particles in exhaled air (aerosol). The term aerosol refers to the smallest fluid or solid particles (these could be viruses, either alone or combined with saliva or even dirt or particulates) in a gas, most commonly air. The size of the particles ranges from a few nanometers (a millionth of a millimeter), through to several micrometers (one thousandth of a millimeter). To provide a comparison: The breadth of a human hair is 100 micrometers.

How viruses behave in the air is determined by the size of the carrier aerosols

“It seems that as far as the coronavirus is concerned, both infection via droplets and airborne transmission via aerosols apply,” Kriegel explains. In the case of droplet infection, the virus particles in a droplet of saliva come into contact with the mucus membranes of another person. While in airborne transfers, the viruses – tied to the smallest fluid particles – enter our respiratory passages. Decisive for the behavior of viruses in air are the size of the carrier aerosols as well as the indoor climate, the air exchange rate and the way in which a room is aired. “Larger particles sink faster to the ground. Smaller particles follow the air flow and can remain longer in the air,” Kriegel explains.

Studies have shown that speaking, coughing and sneezing produce particles of 0.01 μm to 1500 μm

The spread of the mixture of particles, saliva and air produced by speaking coughing or sneezing occurs in two stages. Firstly the process of coughing/speaking/sneezing produces a spray which penetrates the room air, increasingly mixing with it. What happens next to this spray depends on a number of factors, such as its speed, turbulence, the temperature difference between the spray and the surrounding air as well as the difference in humidity. A number of studies have shown that speaking/coughing/sneezing produce particles of 0.01 μm to 1500 μm. “Once the spray has fully mixed with the room air, the process of spreading begins,” explains Kriegel. “The smaller particles largely follow the room airflow, whilst larger particles sink successively to the ground. The fact that the largest particles are only emitted by sneezing is often overlooked. Almost all aerosols produced by speaking and coughing are small.

More than 50 percent of medium-sized particles can still be detected in the air after twenty minutes

Working in a number of projects, the research team measured the sedimentation rate of particles of various size categories. Almost all small particles (0.5 to10 μm) are still present in air after twenty minutes. Little or no sedimentation of these particles can be detected. More than 50 percent of medium-sized particles (3 to10 μm) can still be detected in the air after twenty minutes. “A further study shows that under certain conditions even larger droplets (>60 μm) can spread a long way through a room. This is the case if the particles are propelled from a source of warmth (such as a human body). They rise, spread horizontally and only then start to sediment. Possible horizontal air movements strengthen the spreading effect,” says Kriegel.

To examine the possibility of recommencing normal working life, the research team simulated the spread of particles in an office where four people are working and where there is no air conditioning system. “Our tests show that small particles of less than 50 μm spread extensively through a room and remain in the air for a long time without the use of an air conditioning system.

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Save Yourself, Save your Family and Save your Friends

this vidEO was/is a call to arms for me. it will be repeated a million times

the freeging n95 masks don’t work. the surgical masks are worse and the cool dude bandannas are a sick joke

The National Institute of Health issued an urgent warning that MASKS DON’T PROTECT YOU from the Coronavirus. Not even the so-called gold standard of masks – the N95. Even worse, they report that “reusable” surgical masks are killing those who wear them.

See NIH study quotes below:

“The N95 filtering face piece respirators may not provide the expected protection level against small virions. Some surgical masks may let a significant fraction of airborne viruses penetrate through their filters, providing very low protection against aerosolized infectious agents in the size range of 10 to 80 nm.”

Results

“The results indicate that the penetration of virions through the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)-certified N95 respirators can exceed an expected level of 5%. The tested surgical masks showed a much higher particle penetration because they are known to be less efficient than the N95 respirators. The 2 surgical masks, which originated from the same manufacturer, showed tremendously different penetration levels of the MS2 virions: 20.5% and 84.5%, respectively, at an inhalation flow rate of 85 L/min.”

WTF

Hi Nick here. I am in a foul mood. I am really really angry. I cannot believe how people are acting especially baby boomers. We are in the crosshairs of a plague. What I believe if not already the coronavirus will soon be the deadliest mankind has ever faced. The politicking, the misinformation and profiteering disgusts me to the core of my being.

It just don’t work a second time…..

Look you got google… if you don’t believe me google it. . To make it easy for you i redid my original offer for the only mask i believe can protect you. I included the certifications, charts of the difference. I even got a letter from the EU certified testing lab certifying the filters we provide.

I am going to tell you what i told my kids. I have done all i can do. I became a expert on this pandemic. I am the librarian and mask supplier to Hospitals and foremost medical centers. As a footnote medical staff fight over my filters and masks… they know the truth. Back to my millennial’s. I told them here are the masks, goggles, filters and medicines and the supporting researcher]. Its on you my convenience is clear. You live you live and you die or get sick and disabled for life its not on me.

I have a solution for you. Send the complete kit to your family and say pick a chance at life or die. My conscience is clear. And that is exactly what i am doing for you. I am tired of arguing with stupid people. If you want to see the truth is as plain as day. The authorities are Not reporting the infections. They are NOT reporting the positivity rate. They are NOT reporting the hospitalizations. And they are NOT reporting the deaths.

So you really expect them to tell you the Gold Star N95 mask is a joke? Do you expect them to tell the hospitals workers that the PPE shit they provide is a even sicker joke. And they do not have the money for the right equiptment? DO you expect them to tell the poor schmucks at the hospital risking their lives and their families that reusing a N95 mask that has been processed removes the electrostatic charge and reduces it ability to filter big droplets by half????????????

take matter into your own hands

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Covid-19 Vaccine Push Lacks a Key Ingredient: Trust

(Bloomberg Opinion) — In the war against the coronavirus, only one weapon has the potential to ease the conflict quickly: a vaccine. With about 164,000 Americans dead from Covid-19, the economy battered and communities forced into recurring lockdowns, the federal government has made a $10 billion wager that public funds and expertise wedded to private research and production can jump-start a vaccine’s arrival — possibly by early next year. Operation Warp Speed, launched in April, is administered by the Department of Health and Human Services, the Biomedical Advance Research and Development Authority, and the Department of Defense, along with several other federal agencies. A handful of pharmaceutical companies, including AstraZeneca Plc, GlaxoSmithKline Plc, Johnson & Johnson, Moderna Inc., Novavax Inc., Pfizer Inc. and Sanofi SA, have received the lion’s share of the federal funding. The companies are spending those billions on vaccine development and clinical trials, as well as the cost of manufacturing and delivering a successful candidate to the government. Companies aren’t required to repay the money, and the government is getting no equity stake or profit participation in return for the taxpayer dollars. But the companies have committed to delivering hundreds of millions of doses of their vaccines directly to the government, which promises free inoculations for Americans. There’s likely to be plenty of wreckage along the way. Many companies may not be able to engineer a vaccine, much less deliver one, and billions of dollars will go down the drain. It’s a calculated risk worth taking, as long as it speeds an effective vaccine to market. Drug companies normally develop drugs slowly in order to minimize pricey failures. A cushion of federal funding allows Big Pharma to begin manufacturing possibly money-losing drugs even while trials are underway, compressing years of work into months. Warp Speed’s upside — saving lives — is well worth any money that may get lost. But the program also has been shrouded in secrecy. The government has good reasons to keep some parts of the program under wraps, particularly negotiations that could affect the stock prices of companies making bids. But the process for deciding which companies were tapped to participate in the public health equivalent of the Manhattan Project has been entirely too opaque. And that lack of transparency is also likely to make the public — the folks who will have to line up for inoculations — skeptical that the government has ensured that we wind up with an effective, safe vaccine.Two of the men overseeing Warp Speed, Moncef Slaoui and Gary Disbrow, say they aren’t cutting any corners around testing or safety protocols before a vaccine is released into the wild, but time is of the essence. “If we were to wait to scale up manufacturing until we had results of Phase 3 clinical trials, we would be looking at a six- to eight-month delay before we even started manufacturing,” says Disbrow, who has worked for Barda since 2007 and is now the agency’s acting director. “The financial burden for lives lost and the financial burden to our overall economy for not allowing our people to go back to a somewhat normal routine is much greater than the financial burden that we’re assuming in developing these vaccines.” Slaoui is a well-regarded, Moroccan-born research scientist who spent three decades at GlaxoSmithKline, most recently as head of the drug giant’s vaccines department, before he retired in 2017. He also served on several corporate boards of directors, including Moderna’s, before President Donald Trump’s administration appointed him as Warp Speed’s chief adviser in May.“As I took the role coming from industry, I had a few hesitations, concerns that I may get myself into some kind of a moving sand and bureaucracy,” he says. “And it’s just in the reverse. It’s incredible. I think the level of focus and alignment and empowerment and lack of interference — it’s just perfect. And I think as an executive team we’re running at a thousand miles an hour.” 

Slaoui also has little patience for critics of Warp Speed’s structure or goals: “Many, many experts are saying, ‘Why, this has never been done,’ and ‘Why, it’s impossible to do.’ I would like to ask them: Please, can you take 10% of your time and help us try to make it work? … Of course its very difficult. Of course it could fail.” That doesn’t address one of the most pertinent criticisms: that Warp Speed’s contracts and spending aren’t transparent. The House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Crisis has just called for Warp Speed officials to provide more information on its operations.In a recent Senate hearing, legislators grilled Disbrow, along with Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, about how the operation is being run. “The administration still has not provided any explanation of how it is selecting vaccine candidates, what the risks are of narrowing down that shortlist or addressed concerns about potential conflicts in contracts that predate this crisis,” Senator Patty Murray, a Democrat from Washington state, observed during the hearing.

 

The Warp Speed leaders declined to offer specifics to senators on which companies were candidates or how the selection process works. Disbrow noted that Barda has been making Warp Speed investments public as soon as the agency believes it’s appropriate to do so. Collins said his agency convened a panel of experts who reviewed 50 Covid-19 vaccine candidates before the list was winnowed down. All three men told the senators that they hadn’t come under pressure from the White House or anyone else in government to select particular Warp Speed participants or to expedite the delivery of a vaccine to improve President Trump’s re-election prospects. But political controversy has haunted every discussion of Warp Speed and its timeline for delivering a vaccine. And for good reason. Trump has frequently highlighted the possibility that a vaccine will arrive much sooner than experts and Warp Speed’s own leaders predict, and he has forced agencies such as the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration — both part of the Warp Speed effort — to bend to his will or follow his lead on medically dubious initiatives. Slaoui says a vaccine could be available by the end of the year for some at-risk individuals, but that would require emergency approval from the FDA. Stephen Hahn, the FDA commissioner, has said his agency will maintain high standards in its approval process, but Trump has also made his preferences clear. That could put pressure on Hahn, an inexperienced commissioner who already flip-flopped on granting emergency authorization for the use of hydroxychloroquine, a controversial and ineffective drug favored by the president. Members of the medical community have also raised red flags about Warp Speed’s opaque selection process. They contend that some companies appeared to have been selected because they could manufacture a vaccine quickly, not because they demonstrated the most promising scientific approaches. “It’s typical Operation Warp Speed, where everything is sort of cryptic and it’s unclear what they’re actually saying,” Peter Hotez, a vaccine researcher at Baylor College of Medicine, told Science Magazine in June. “What have these vaccines been chosen to do?” Slaoui and Disbrow say transparency is a priority but that they’re negotiating with publicly traded companies and have to be circumspect about disclosure to avoid moving their stock prices. They say they will soon disclose extensive data from trials the companies have conducted.

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Give Your Family and Friends the Gift of Life

Scientific Research Shows the N95 and Surgical Masks Just Plain Don’t Work – Save Yourself and Save Your Friends

The CDC Just Issued A Coronavirus Mask Warning That’ll Scare You to Death!

Here’s What You Must Do Now to Stay Safe…

I’m so pissed off right now I can’t see straight… I mean I’m absolutely livid!

So why am I writing to you? Because what I’m about to tell you is going to piss you off too. It’s also going to scare the living crap out of you.

And if I don’t tell you what’s making me so angry, you’ll be in bigger trouble than you know. In fact, you just may end up dead.

Let me take a deep breath and explain:

We’re living through the greatest health crisis of our lifetime. The Coronavirus has infected over 5,400,000 Americans and killed a mind-boggling 170,000 with no end in sight. And the CDC says those numbers are way, way understated!

For months and months, the experts have told us there are two ways to stop the Coronavirus in its tracks:

Stay apart, stay covered and you’ll be safe, right?

WRONG!

The National Institute of Health issued an urgent warning that MASKS DON’T PROTECT YOU from the Coronavirus. Not even the so-called gold standard of masks – the N95. Even worse, they report that “reusable” surgical masks are killing those who wear them.

The N95 filtering face piece respirators may not provide the expected protection level against small virions. Some surgical masks may let a significant fraction of airborne viruses penetrate through their filters, providing very low protection against aerosolized infectious agents in the size range of 10 to 80 nm.

Results

The results indicate that the penetration of virions through the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)-certified N95 respirators can exceed an expected level of 5%. The tested surgical masks showed a much higher particle penetration because they are known to be less efficient than the N95 respirators. The 2 surgical masks, which originated from the same manufacturer, showed tremendously different penetration levels of the MS2 virions: 20.5% and 84.5%, respectively, at an inhalation flow rate of 85 L/min.

WTF is going on? We’ve been told a million times to wear a mask. Now they’re telling us that wearing them could kill us!

Does this mean that we have absolutely no defense and sooner or later we’re all going to die?

The hell it does!

I’ve got a lot of contacts. So after I calmed down, I made some calls to find out if the technology exists to protect us from this deadly virus.

The good news is, it does. But it’s not available in the U.S. That’s why you’ve never heard of it. My contact assured me that I could source a limited quantity of a brand new mask and nanoparticle (only ones made) canister filters reserved for laboratory workers and top medical personnel. And I did!

Since this is a matter of life and death, I’m offering them on a first-come first-served basis at a little above cost. I’m doing this as an emergency and humanitarian effort to save lives! We have supplies of masks and filters in stock ready for IMMEDIATE shipment that can protect you. When they are gone, they are gone, no telling when we will get resupplied.

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Postal slowdown threatens election breakdown

In 24 hours, signs of a pre-election postal slowdown have moved from the shadows to the spotlight, with evidence emerging all over the country that this isn’t a just a potential threat, but is happening before our eyes. If you’re the Trump administration, and you’re in charge of the federal government, remember that a Pew poll published in April found the Postal Service was viewed favorably by 91% of Americans. There’s pretty high brand equity for the organization that got soldiers’ letters back from the front lines, delivered care packages to your summer camp, and shoved your college acceptance through the front door. Louis DeJoy, a top Trump donor, was sworn in as postmaster general in June. Since then:

  • Social media exploded with reports from Oregon, Montana, Manhattan and Pennsylvania that the Postal Service was unbolting and hauling away mailboxes. “Some of the boxes scheduled to be removed from downtown Billings are nearly overflowing daily,” Julie Quilliam, president of the Montana Letter Carriers Association, wrote on Facebook, per AP.
    • The Postal Service backed off Friday, telling NBC News: “We are not going to be removing any boxes … After the election, we’re going to take a look at operations.”
  • The WashPost scooped that the Postal Service sent letters July 29 to 46 states and D.C. “warning that it cannot guarantee all ballots cast by mail for the November election will arrive in time to be counted.” The Post said that could mean that even if people “follow all of their state’s election rules, the pace of Postal Service delivery may disqualify their votes.”
  • And high-speed sorting machines are being yanked from processing plants.

Of note: Joe Biden is seizing on the postal fiasco, saying on Friday at a virtual fundraiser, per a pool report:

  • “I was joking earlier with a couple on the call. I wonder if you’re outside trying to hold down your mailboxes. They’re going around literally with tractor trailers picking up mailboxes. You oughta go online and check out what they’re doing in Oregon. I mean, it’s bizarre!”
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Do N95 respirators provide 95% protection level against airborne viruses

National Center for Biotechnology Information

Background: Respiratory protection devices are used to protect the wearers from inhaling particles suspended in the air. Filtering face piece respirators are usually tested utilizing nonbiologic particles, whereas their use often aims at reducing exposure to biologic aerosols, including infectious agents such as viruses and bacteria.

Methods: The performance of 2 types of N95 half-mask, filtering face piece respirators and 2 types of surgical masks were determined. The collection efficiency of these respiratory protection devices was investigated using MS2 virus (a nonharmful simulant of several pathogens). The virions were detected in the particle size range of 10 to 80 nm.

Results: The results indicate that the penetration of virions through the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)-certified N95 respirators can exceed an expected level of 5%. As anticipated, the tested surgical masks showed a much higher particle penetration because they are known to be less efficient than the N95 respirators. The 2 surgical masks, which originated from the same manufacturer, showed tremendously different penetration levels of the MS2 virions: 20.5% and 84.5%, respectively, at an inhalation flow rate of 85 L/min.

Conclusion: The N95 filtering face piece respirators may not provide the expected protection level against small virions. Some surgical masks may let a significant fraction of airborne viruses penetrate through their filters, providing very low protection against aerosolized infectious agents in the size range of 10 to 80 nm. It should be noted that the surgical masks are primarily designed to protect the environment from the wearer, whereas the respirators are supposed to protect the wearer from the environment.

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