 Mass protests after George Floyd’s death in police custody have sparked concerns that the gatherings may lead to a second wave of coronavirus infections.
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 “Look at what’s going in Florida, it’s incredible,” Trump said at one point. “The job the governor of Florida’s done, it’s incredible. The numbers they’re doing ... you gotta open it up.” Much like Florida, Georgia has had the integrity of its coronavirus numbers questioned.
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 At a congressional hearing, Dr. Robert Redfield, head of the CDC, issued stark warnings about the potential for future pandemics.
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 As people across all 50 states continue to gather to protest police brutality and systemic racism, the question is whether this will spark a COVID-19 resurgence right when the U.S. seemed to be getting its epidemic under control.
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 A document created by the CDC and reviewed by Yahoo News lists nine counties and one city with rising infection levels, many in states that have eased lockdown restrictions.
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 Vice President Mike Pence hailed “remarkable progress” toward returning the nation to normalcy at the first public briefing of the coronavirus task force in nearly two months on Friday, a day the U.S. saw a new high for coronavirus cases recorded.
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 As coronavirus case counts soar, a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that two-thirds of Americans now share Joe Biden’s position on masks — even as Republicans, and President Trump, continue to oppose it.
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 The Sunshine State reported nearly 9,000 new cases on Friday as its death toll ticked over 3,400.
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 If the health care program is overturned by the Supreme Court, millions of Americans could lose their insurance coverage.
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 Although his presidential bid failed to gain traction, former Rep. Beto O’Rourke came within a hair of becoming a senator from Texas in 2018 and performed better than any Democrat in a statewide race in nearly 30 years.
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 States stretching from Florida to California are seeing record highs in cases as hospitals begin to fill up and Republican governors urge the use of masks.
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 The potential ban not only underscores how much worse the U.S. outbreak has gotten in recent days. It also highlights how much better the EU is currently doing than the U.S. But why?
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 President Trump did not order a slowdown in coronavirus testing because he wanted to depress the nation’s infection rate, top officials of the White House coronavirus task force, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, said in congressional testimony on Tuesday.
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 The White House insisted President Trump was kidding when he told supporters at a rally in Tulsa, Okla., over the weekend that he wanted coronavirus testing in the United States slowed down in order to halt the country's mounting case count. The president said he was not.
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 President Trump drew harsh criticism this weekend for his flippant remarks about the coronavirus at a Tulsa, Okla., rally.
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 President Trump’s reelection campaign got off to a rocky start Saturday, with a rally in Tulsa, Okla., that he had hoped would draw a much larger audience than the one that showed up.
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 With states reopening, shoppers are returning to malls and stores, prompting public health officials to point to rebounding coronavirus cases in some regions. Yet despite the continued risk, there is no system in place for tracking whether these establishments have been involved in an outbreak.
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 When protests started after the killing of George Floyd, health experts worried they could spark outbreaks of the coronavirus. There is little evidence that has happened, though officials caution it is far too early to draw conclusions.
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 A top federal official charged with addressing racial disparities in health outcomes in the coronavirus pandemic acknowledged that police killings of Black Americans also pose a public health threat.
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 Case counts are climbing in more than 20 states. But so far COVID-19 death counts have not been climbing along with them. Is that because patients are starting to skew younger?
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 States across the country are lifting lockdown restrictions at the same time as the number of coronavirus cases are on the rise in many places. Is America accepting that it's lost the fight to contain the pandemic?
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 Even as Vice President Mike Pence wrote that U.S. coronavirus cases "have stabilized," the CDC circulated a document warning that infections have increased more than 18 percent.
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 An impassioned former Vice President Joe Biden hammered the president’s coronavirus response in a speech Wednesday, lambasting Donald Trump’s recent remarks suggesting that cases would go down if the country stopped testing.
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 The city council in Montgomery, Ala., voted down a mask enforcement ordinance Tuesday night, while letters were sent to the governors of Arizona and Texas.
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 African-Americans and Latinos are vastly overrepresented when it comes to coronavirus infections, according to an analysis released by the Centers for Disease Control on Monday morning.
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 A month after President Trump announced Operation Warp Speed, administration officials are offering no guarantees the project will meet its goal of 300 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine by January.
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 The Trump campaign said Tuesday it would stick with its plan for a giant indoor rally in Tulsa — on the same day the Centers for Disease Control reported that Oklahoma showed a 7.7 percent increase in COVID-19 cases, the highest in the country.
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 Florida has certainly been finding more cases. On June 1, Florida’s seven-day average stood at 726 cases per day. As of June 15, it had more than doubled to 1,775. However, Florida has been conducting roughly the same average number of COVID-19 tests every day for the last month.
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 Less than a month after President Trump urged churches to reopen, West Virginia has reported a significant number of coronavirus outbreaks linked to houses of worship.
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 The city's paper and public health director have urged the president to postpone his rally scheduled for June 20.
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 Clinton chided Trump’s campaign for resuming large rallies amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and obliging those seeking tickets to his first event to sign a liability waiver.
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 While many countries are seeing a decline in COVID-19 cases, infections in the United States appear to be spiking, according to documents obtained by Yahoo News.
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 A top public health official in the Trump administration acknowledged Tuesday that no national coronavirus response for underserved communities is possible until laboratories that perform diagnostic testing begin to collect race-specific data.
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 Dr. Scott Gottlieb told Yahoo News' “Skullduggery” podcast that he is worried Americans are on track to confront a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
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 As reopening plans either stall or move forward slowly, the vast majority of states have not been able to drive down their infection rates, according to an internal HHS map obtained by Yahoo News.
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 However haltingly and incompletely, the president’s favorite news outlet has started to acknowledge that the coronavirus is a far graver threat than even Trump will acknowledge.
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 As the United States crossed 50,000 new daily cases, the president repeated a line he’s used for months: The virus will just disappear — eventually.
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 Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey told Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday that the state needed an additional 500 health care workers as the number of cases of COVID-19 continues to set records there.
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 California locked down aggressively and never dismissed the threat. Yet now it’s being mentioned in the same breath as Florida, Arizona and Texas, states suffering new outbreaks. What went wrong?
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 An initiative to provide Americans with free face coverings has run out of supplies, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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 As the coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage large swaths of the U.S., leading Republicans and even some right-wing TV personalities have come out in favor of wearing masks to prevent the spread of the virus.
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 For the first few months of the pandemic, the worst impacts were concentrated in rich countries. Recently, the number of cases in developing countries that may be vulnerable to severe outbreaks has increased.
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 Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said Tuesday that President Trump has “surrendered” in the fight against the coronavirus as new cases skyrocket in the U.S.
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 An internal map from the CDC shows that as many as 32 states are not seeing any decreases in coronavirus cases, and positive lab test results have jumped to nearly 8 percent nationwide.
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 Using their expertise in military or intelligence services to compensate for what they see as President Trump’s deficient handling of the crisis, national security Democrats have enjoined their Republican counterparts to refocus on the pandemic.
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 Local leaders are rolling back reopenings, issuing mandates for wearing masks and closing down some beaches in advance of the Fourth of July holiday.
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 Once assumed to be safe from the dangers of COVID-19, younger adults share their prolonged struggles with the disease.
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 Vice President Mike Pence peeled off his White House-branded mask and smiled at a crowd of thousands Sunday morning. Yet he wasn’t technically headlining a political rally — he was at church in a state that has seen a dramatic spike in coronavirus cases.
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 Calling the recent surge in coronavirus cases in states like Florida, Texas and Arizona “very scary,” Yahoo News Medical Contributor Dr. Kavita Patel said she fears the virus will continue to flare up in communities around the country throughout the summer.
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 The face mask culture war arrived in full force on Capitol Hill on Friday when a bitter dispute erupted in a congressional hearing room, with Republicans refusing to wear face coverings and Democrats insisting that they do so.
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As a coordinator and communicator with Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), Heather Pagano has worked in Liberia helping communities fight Ebola; with refugees in Nigeria fleeing conflict; and in South Sudan, where violence has forced millions of people out of their homes. 
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Some young people in Alabama are throwing Covid-19 parties, a disturbing competition where people who have coronavirus attend and the first person to get infected receives a payout, local officials said. 
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Australian officials have launched a judicial inquiry amid allegations a fresh coronavirus outbreak in the state of Victoria was sparked by some contracted workers not following protocols at a hotel used to quarantine international arrivals -- including reportedly having sex with people under lockdown. 
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As the weather has warmed in my Midwestern town, my neighborhood is full of children on bicycles pretending to be riding through the Wild West. I can't walk down the sidewalk without stepping on chalk drawings or hopscotch boards. There are children jumping rope and playing ball. In the eight years I've lived here, I've never witnessed this before. As a clinical psychologist who studies children's friendships, I am fascinated by this development. 
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After a week of skyrocketing coronavirus cases in the United States, officials are issuing a stark warning this July Fourth: Skip the parties. 
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It's easy to fall into a false sense of security now that states have reopened. And many are already paying the price. 
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At the end of April, video emerged from the main hospital in the Brazilian city of Manaus of bodies lined up in corridors, the victims of a sudden surge in the coronavirus. At the same time, the city began digging mass graves for hundreds of people who'd not even had the chance of treatment. 
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Back in the middle of May, I wrote an essay titled "If the United States were my patient," pondering what it would be like if the United States were a flesh-and-blood person who had gotten sick with coronavirus. 
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On Saturday, as people across the country celebrate America's independence, Shakell Avery will celebrate a different kind of freedom. 
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While the Fourth of July can be likened to one of America's biggest street parties — at least in pre-pandemic times — our celebration of the sacrifices made by our nation's warriors can cause intensely painful trauma reactions for some who fight our wars. 
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As Americans find some beaches closed and Fourth of July fireworks scarce, authorities fear the holiday weekend may worsen the already ravaging coronavirus pandemic. 
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My twin boys were supposed to be born in June, but they had other plans. I went into early labor in March, just as the coronavirus was sweeping into my hometown of Atlanta. 
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Patience in lifting coronavirus restrictions is paying off all over the world, but lifting lockdowns too early can have deadly consequences. 
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A combination of factors could make the Fourth of July a "perfect storm" of coronavirus infections, warned one doctor -- but only for those who don't choose to safely navigate the holiday weekend. 
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Fireworks explode like magnified gunfire in the exquisitely sensitive ears of many of our pets. 
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A surprising new study found the controversial antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine helped patients better survive in the hospital. But the findings, like the federal government's use of the drug itself, were disputed. 
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An 11-year-old boy from Miami-Dade County has died from Covid-19 complications, according to the Florida Department of Health, making him the youngest person in the state of Florida to die from the disease. 
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Scientists around the world are racing to develop Covid-19 vaccines and there's news almost daily about steps forward -- this week, there was "encouraging" preliminary data for some vaccine candidates and word from top health officials that the United States could be on track to have a vaccine by the end of the year. 
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A global study has found strong evidence that a new form of the coronavirus has spread from Europe to the US. The new mutation makes the virus more likely to infect people but does not seem to make them any sicker than earlier variations of the virus, an international team of researchers reported Thursday. 
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Inside a Houston hospital partly transformed into a coronavirus specialty unit, one doctor says he expects to reach capacity in the next 14 days. 
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At least 152 cases of coronavirus are linked to a bar in East Lansing, Michigan, health officials said. 
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School bus drivers are about to begin a school year unlike any they've ever experienced. 
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Americans are flocking to their favorite restaurants again, especially those that have set up outdoor and indoor seating that follows the rules of social distancing. 
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A Southern California man who tested positive for coronavirus after attending a party expressed his fear and regret a day before he died. 
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In the past week, the state has seen upwards of 6,000 new cases every day and hospitals are reaching capacity.
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The US infection rate is surging, with over 40,000 people currently infected each day.
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A look back at how Covid-19 has swept the globe and altered the world in the course of six months.
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The UK's regulator says testing of the controversial anti-malarial drug can be resumed.
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It is a small spike in Hebei near Beijing but enough for officials to reinstate a strict lockdown.
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Leading doctors call for regular check ups of those who have been treated in hospital.
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The new strain, scientists say, is carried by pigs but can infect humans and requires close monitoring.
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The pandemic "is not even close to being over", the World Health Organization's chief says.
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The governor says 5,000 people are being diagnosed with the virus as Texans are told to wear masks.
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The government's TraceTogether tokens are aimed at people who do not have smartphones.
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Industry leaders say they have been working without "adequate protection and guidance".
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The close contacts of people who test positive are being traced by new NHS service in England.
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Far more people have died during the coronavirus pandemic than official Covid-19 data can account for
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A cheap steroid is hailed a big breakthrough in the treatment of seriously ill Covid-19 patients.
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Iran was one of the worst affected countries early on, so is the virus flaring up again?
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The government has said it will be possible to relax the 2m social distancing from 4 July - but is it safe to do so?
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Identifying superspreading events could be crucial in the fight against the virus, scientists say.
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Positive stories from people considered at high risk who have made a full recovery from coronavirus.
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The BBC has been given unprecedented access to a hospital in the heart of London, for one week.
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A BBC team tracking coronavirus misinformation has found links to assaults, arson and deaths - and the potential for even greater indirect harm.
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Swedish healthcare is under scrutiny over the high rate of Covid-19 deaths in care homes.
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Some tourist towns had barely survived fires when the virus hit, and locals say they are struggling.
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Why the people on the only continent without a recorded case of coronavirus are in lockdown.
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Restrictions ease in some countries but the World Health Organization warns infections could rise.
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Will Covid-19 make handshakes a relic of the past? If so, what might that mean about the future of human touch and interaction?
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There's still plenty of dangerous and untested medical advice circulating online.
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Why do fewer people seem to be having heart attacks and strokes? One theory is that the lockdown lifestyle is healthy.
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Recovery from Covid-19 can be a lengthy process, depending on how seriously people get the virus.
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Children seem to be at low risk from the disease, but can they still spread it?
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President Trump has been critical - but what do others think of the "global guardian of public health"?
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England's chief medical officer says lifting lockdown restrictions is "a reasonable package of risks".
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How to keep your guests safe when they come round to visit during a global pandemic?
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Dr Georges Benjamin breaks down the risks of going into crowds and how best to protect yourself.
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The six-figure sculpture to celebrate emergency services is planned for central London in 2023.
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A Swedish study found twice as many people had protective T-cells as tested positive for antibodies.
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The US will acquire almost all the next three months' production of the drug from Gilead.
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