https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/hhs-strengthens-vaccine-injury-research-reporting-patient-care

HHS Launches Agency-Wide Actions to Strengthen Vaccine Injury Research, Reporting, and Patient Care

WASHINGTON, D.C.—OCTOBER 8, 2026— The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) this week launched a series of actions to strengthen how the federal government identifies, documents, investigates, and responds to health problems reported following vaccination, with a focus on improving patient care and generating better evidence about potential vaccine-related injuries.

To address health problems Americans report after vaccinations, HHS:

  • Opened a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) clinic dedicated to studying and caring for patients experiencing health problems following vaccination;
  • Proposed reimbursing physicians for reporting suspected vaccine-related injuries to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) through a new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) policy, bringing vaccine reporting in Medicare in line with typical Medicare reimbursement policies;
  • Will require electronic health records to capture vaccine-related adverse events so that information can follow patients across the health care system; and
  • Is modernizing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) VAERS to make reporting simpler and improve the tools available to researchers and medical professionals investigating potential safety signals.

“We must listen to patients and families who report vaccine injuries—not dismiss or gaslight them,” said HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “President Trump and I are building a health system that takes them seriously, follows the evidence, and uses what we learn to make vaccines safer. This is how we earn back trust in our public health institutions.”

NIH Opens Clinic for Patient Care and Research

On October 5, NIH opened a new clinic dedicated to studying and caring for patients experiencing health problems following vaccination. HHS and NIH leaders marked the opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at NIH’s Bethesda campus.

The clinic brings specialized patient care and scientific investigation together, allowing NIH clinicians and researchers to evaluate patients, study their experiences, investigate potential causes, and identify better approaches to care. By connecting patients directly with clinicians and researchers, NIH will expand access to evaluation and care while advancing scientific understanding of health problems reported following vaccination.

CMS Proposes Reimbursing Physicians for VAERS Reporting

For the first time, CMS has proposed reimbursing physicians for the time they spend submitting reports of suspected vaccine-related injuries to VAERS, bringing vaccine reporting in Medicare in line with typical Medicare reimbursement policies.

VAERS relies on reports from health care professionals, patients, caregivers, vaccine manufacturers, and others to help identify potential vaccine safety concerns. CMS proposes the reimbursement policy to reduce barriers to physician reporting and encourage health care professionals to document suspected adverse events following vaccination.

Electronic Health Records to Capture Vaccine-Related Adverse Events

Federal health information technology standards overseen by the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology will now require electronic health records to capture vaccine-related adverse events so that this information can follow patients across the health care system.

The requirement will give health care professionals a more complete picture of a patient’s medical history and reduce the need for patients to repeatedly recount the same information when receiving care from different providers.

CDC Modernizing VAERS

CDC is modernizing VAERS to make adverse-event reporting simpler, more accessible, and easier to use.

In August, CDC solicited bids for a new contract to overhaul the system. On September 28, CDC announced a new contract to make VAERS accessible on mobile devices and improve the tools available to researchers and medical professionals investigating potential safety signals. Earlier this year, CDC also added a VAERS QR code to Vaccine Information Statements provided to parents and patients for each vaccine administered.

Together, these Department-wide actions will connect patient care, physician reporting, medical records, clinical research, and federal safety monitoring. They will help HHS better identify and investigate potential vaccine injuries, improve care for patients, and use what it learns to strengthen vaccine safety.

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**Comment**

Not to be a ‘Debbie Downer,’ but I’m not expecting much from this. The fact the COVID kill shots are till being pushed tells me everything I need to know.

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https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/the-ultimate-pharma-power-grab-new

The ULTIMATE PHARMA POWER GRAB: New Bill Aims to Strip CDC Oversight and Automate Vaccine Approvals

Del Bigtree sounds the alarm on S.3323, warning that this legislation is an open play for COMPLETE PHARMACEUTICAL CONTROL over every vaccine decision made in America.

Oct. 12, 2026


In this crucial clip from The HighWire, Del Bigtree exposes S.3323, the Family Vaccine Protection Act, a dangerous legislative maneuver designed to hand total power over U.S. vaccine policy directly to pharmaceutical manufacturers.

Under the bill, the CDC director would be stripped of independent oversight, legally required to automatically adopt Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommendations unless the agency can clear an onerous burden of proof and publish its review.

Additionally, the legislation forces ACIP to fast-track newly licensed vaccines and new indications based strictly on the manufacturer’s timeline.

Bigtree warns that this is a calculated, aggressive play for absolute corporate dominance over our public health programs, and that the public must mobilize to push back immediately.

Source: The HighWire

https://imahealth.substack.com/p/ima-after-the-bmj-investigation-congress?

IMA: After The BMJ Investigation, Congress Must Act

After The BMJ investigation, IMA calls on Congress to end regulatory capture with five reforms to fix the vaccine safety failures the probe exposed.

Independent Medical Alliance

Oct 01, 2026

After The BMJ investigation, Congress must act

Did industry capture help silence COVID shot safety warnings? The BMJ’s findings demand an answer from lawmakers.

The Independent Medical Alliance (IMA), a national coalition of independent physicians, researchers and clinicians, today called on Congress to end the regulatory capture that may have contributed to the COVID vaccine safety failures documented by The BMJ.

The BMJ found that CDC and FDA officials were warned that the data mining tool they relied on to scan vaccine injury reports was blind to signals from the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA shots. Officials kept the tool and told the FDA scientist who raised the problem to back off. Then they assured the public there were no safety signals.

Pfizer and Moderna had record years. Pfizer’s Comirnaty brought in roughly $37 billion to $38 billion in each of 2021 and 2022. Moderna went from $803 million in revenue in 2020 to more than $18 billion in 2021, almost entirely from Spikevax.

The CDC didn’t run its second promised analysis until 2022. When it did, the analysis flagged myocarditis and other events as safety signals week after week, even as the CDC director publicly described the results as showing nothing unexpected.

Throughout the rollout, the federal government acted as regulator, largest buyer, liability shield, and, with Moderna, development partner. Several senior officials who oversaw these products later took high-paying jobs in the pharmaceutical industry.

“Congress needs to connect the dots and find out exactly where the pressure to overlook this data came from,” said Dr. Joseph Varon, President and Chief Medical Officer of the Independent Medical Alliance. “Frontline doctors, me included, were speaking up about the injuries we were seeing from the COVID shot. They used flawed FDA and CDC data to shut us down.”

IMA is calling on Congress to enact five reforms.

1. Separate the functions. The FDA’s biologics center authorized the mRNA shots and also controlled the safety analysis that could have raised questions about them. The CDC promoted vaccine uptake while co-running VAERS. Post-market vaccine safety should sit in an office that does not answer to the people responsible for vaccination rates, and whose findings cannot be overruled because they might fuel “rhetoric.”

2. Slow the revolving door. Senior officials who personally handled authorization, labeling or safety-signal decisions for a class of products should be barred for a set number of years from taking a paycheck, consulting contract or board seat with any manufacturer of that class. The FDA should also publish an annual accounting of where its departing medical reviewers go.

3. Make safety analyses public from day one. Any emergency product that floods VAERS should automatically trigger at least two pre-specified data mining methods, including one designed to catch effects shared across a product class. Post weekly results to a public docket the same week they’re produced. If a method is known to be insensitive, every official statement that cites it should say so.

4. Protect the scientist who brings bad news. Ana Szarfman was a career FDA officer. She was told to hold off, and when she persisted, to stop. Congress should give federal safety scientists who flag defects in active surveillance systems statutory protection, including a private right of action if they are removed from the work for speaking up.

5. Put practicing physicians in the room. Safety rules that affect every household shouldn’t be written only by people who will never treat the 24-year-old with chest pain. Frontline doctors need a real seat at the table.

“We’re done accepting ‘trust us’ from agencies that kept a broken alarm running and then pointed to the silence,” Varon said. “If they want the public’s trust back, they can start by taking the fox out of the henhouse.”

The BMJ investigation is available at bmj.com. To arrange an interview with one of our doctors, contact Lynne@imahealth.org.

About Dr. Joseph Varon

Dr. Joseph Varon is a critical care physician, professor, and president and chief medical officer of the Independent Medical Alliance. He has authored over 1000 peer-reviewed publications and serves as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Independent Medicine. You can read more of Dr. Varon’s IMA posts here.

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Peer-Reviewed Misinformation: The Journals That Lent Science’s Authority to a Blacklist

How the “Disinformation Dozen” narrative moved into academic literature—and why major publishers must answer for the claims they published.

Sayer Ji

Oct 08, 2026

An open letter to Springer Nature, ACM, Sage, and The BMJ, exposing discrepancies between their published claims and editorial correction policies—with highlighted policy-versus-passage exhibits and a demand for stronger scientific accountability and the issuance of formal corrections.

Share the X thread for this open letter.

This investigation is part of a broader effort to establish accountability for the use of misinformation designations against identifiable Americans.

In September 2026, we launched Restore the First, a national citizens’ coalition bringing together 20 organizations and eight independent media outlets to address censorship, government accountability, and enforceable protections for First Amendment rights.

The coalition was convened by six Americans named in the original “Disinformation Dozen” report. Our work now extends beyond the conduct of government agencies and technology platforms to a question of scientific accountability: What happens when published research perpetuates inaccurate or unsupported allegations against the very people targeted for censorship?

We are calling on scientific publishers to examine the documented discrepancies, correct consequential errors, and strengthen their correction policies so that no individual is denied an impartial review because of their views or reputation.

The institutions that claim authority to identify misinformation must themselves be accountable for the accuracy of their claims.

The Organization Behind the Blacklist Now Faces Federal Scrutiny

In a striking development, Imran Ahmed, CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate—the organization responsible for the original “Disinformation Dozen” campaign—is now the subject of U.S. government deportation proceedings. In September 2026, a federal district court dismissed his lawsuit challenging the government’s actions, and Ahmed appealed.

Although these immigration proceedings do not constitute a judicial finding that CCDH’s research was false, they place renewed scrutiny on an organization whose allegations helped shape media coverage, government pressure, and subsequent academic publications.

The question for scientific publishers is unavoidable: Did they independently scrutinize CCDH’s evidence before lending their institutional authority to allegations against identifiable Americans?

The credibility of a scientific claim must rest on its evidence—not on the influence or perceived authority of the organization promoting it. (See link for article)

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**Comment**

It was recently exposed by MedPage Today that ACIP decisions were “really made” behind closed doors, in violation of FAHA.

The Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) requires that advisory committees serving the executive branch operate with strict public transparency, establishing that meetings must generally be open to public attendance and announced in advance via the Federal Register.

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The worst purveyors of ‘misinformation’ for the past six years have been our public ‘health authorities,’ government, science publications, mainstream medicine, the White House, & media, Big Tech, globalists, Big Pharma, and ‘professional’ medical groups.

https://connecticutcentinal.com/health/2026/06/01/lyme-vaccine-clinical-trials-history-repeating/

Lyme Vaccine Clinical Trials: History Repeating?

By CT Centinal Staff

June 1, 2026

Public Domain.

By Laura Hovind, CEO, TruthCures

Why is there so much controversy surrounding Lyme disease? Why does it seem you can’t get an accurate Lyme disease test?

Article Excerpts:

Lyme disease researcher and renowned expert Dr. Gary Wormser disclosed in a recent publication that he received a research grant “from Pfizer, Inc. for developing Lyme diagnostics for a Lyme vaccine trial.” Evidently the two-tier method that was developed on behalf of a pivotal efficacy trial still isn’t good enough for the latest pivotal efficacy trial.

In the absence of public disclosures or a transparent process, it looks as if Pfizer paid someone to create or validate a test that will make their vaccine appear effective. In light of Pfizer’s recent withdrawal of numerous trial sites affecting nearly half of their U.S. enrollees, this opaque move does not inspire much-needed trust in a next-generation Lyme vaccine. It only raises more questions about the apparent need to customize a diagnostic test for clinical trials, and the expert contracted to carry out the necessary laboratory work.

Why must a new diagnostic standard be developed every time a vaccine enters phase III trials? Why aren’t diagnostics developed, first, to be most accurate for diagnosing real-world patients, then applied to clinical trials? What behind-the-scenes LYMErix history has Pfizer been made privy to, that led them to conclude they needed a new test? And if, in fact, they have developed their own test, why is such a test allowed to be developed in a vacuum, without any oversight, transparency, or adherence to administrative processes and regulations?

The gap between reported Lyme disease cases and estimated actual cases represents more than 90% of the total. Ninety percent or more of the total cases are unable to test positive and receive proper care. So, it seems obvious that the controversy lies not in the over-diagnosis of Lyme, but in the staggering rate of under-diagnosis.

There is no ethical reality in which Pfizer and Valneva can be permitted to continue their trials. The existing, manipulated diagnostic standard misses 90% of cases. An individual and institution paid by Pfizer to develop “Lyme diagnostics for a Lyme vaccine trial” have helped perpetuate the manipulated standard over three decades. Trial subjects are unwittingly facing harm on multiple fronts—from the vaccine formulation itself, to a potential false sense of security, to a complete inability to be accurately diagnosed if symptoms develop.

We’ve been here before. We’ve seen the damage inflicted by the fiasco surrounding LYMErix. We have witnessed widespread medical abuse over the engineered inaccuracy of the tests developed for previous Lyme vaccine trials but foisted on the public. Yet, history is already in the process of repeating—unlikely to be stopped, with only the prior victims speaking up: “We told you.” (See link for entire chronology)

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**Comment**

Hovind does a superb job detailing the long and sordid history.

What’s hard for folks to grasp is that everything is truly build on false premises – testing, diagnosis, and therefore treatment is fundamentally and fraudulently wrong. If you are new to Lymeland I suggest reading: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/09/25/why-should-we-care-about-lyme-disease-a-colorful-tale-of-government-conflicts-of-interest-probable-bioweaponization-and-pathogen-complexity/ and then https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2026/03/17/why-we-should-care-if-lyme-disease-was-bioengineered/.

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More on the Lyme vaccine:

One of the best articles on the Lyme vaccine was written in 2001 but remains pertinent today: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/02/10/the-bitter-feud-over-lymerix/

Please remember, the COVID injections are NOT vaccines. They are a gene therapy developed by the military that have never protected against infection or transmission. They weren’t even tested for reduction in hospitalization, death, or transmission. They were tested for reduction in severe symptoms – which is not the proper endpoint for “vaccine” efficacy. The public, which has served as subjects in an ongoing clinical trial for an experimental mRNA platform never before used in humans, that scientists have admitted have toxicity risks, is suffering from catastrophic injuries and death, but ‘the powers that be’ simply target those for speaking the truth: the COVID shots are killing people.

https://zenodo.org/records/23165256

Published October 5, 2026 | Version v1

Preprint Open

Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in COVID-19-Vaccinated Versus Unvaccinated U.S. Children: Analysis of the National Health Interview Survey, 2022–2024

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Background: Autism spectrum disorder now affects 1 in 31 U.S. 8-year-olds and continues to rise at an alarming rate. COVID-19 mRNA vaccines were first authorized for U.S. children aged 12–15 in May 2021, 5–11 in October 2021, and 6 months–4 years in June 2022. No pediatric trial or post-marketing surveillance study was designed or powered to detect neurodevelopmental or mental-health outcomes after childhood COVID-19 mRNA vaccination. Vaccine-derived spike protein circulates systemically after vaccination and has been detected in blood, monocytes, cerebral arteries, and peripheral tissue months to years later, the S1 subunit disrupts blood–brain-barrier integrity in vitro, and prenatal spike-protein exposure induces autism-like behavior, neuroinflammation, and reduced BDNF in male rats. A population-level signal-detection analysis is warranted.

Methods: We pooled the 2022–2024 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) Sample Child files (n = 21,990 children aged 0–17 with COVID-19 vaccination status; n = 19,882 aged 2–17 for autism, ADHD, and learning-disability items; 844 lifetime and 779 current ASD cases), with the 2021 (ages 12–17) and 2025 (current-season dose) files as supplementary samples. The primary comparison was COVID-19-vaccinated versus COVID-19-unvaccinated children (parental report of ever receiving a COVID-19 vaccine; “unvaccinated” denotes no COVID-19 vaccine, not absence of routine childhood immunization), with number of doses and years since first dose as secondary exposures. Outcomes were parent-reported lifetime and current autism spectrum disorder (ASD), ADHD, learning disability, intellectual disability, developmental delay, special-education use, asthma, diabetes, anxiety and depression frequency, mental-health treatment, general health, and acute-care use. Influenza and HPV vaccination served as negative-control exposures. Survey-weighted logistic regression with stratum/PSU Taylor-linearized variance estimated odds ratios (ORs) across five adjustment tiers.

Results: Compared with unvaccinated children, COVID-19-vaccinated children had higher adjusted odds of lifetime ASD (aOR 1.26, 95% CI 1.04–1.52), current ASD (1.32, 1.08–1.60), ADHD (1.33, 1.18–1.49), any neurodevelopmental diagnosis (1.23, 1.12–1.35), special-education use (1.19, 1.08–1.31), asthma (1.24, 1.11–1.37), daily/weekly anxiety (1.27, 1.15–1.42), and mental-health medication (1.57, 1.38–1.77) and therapy (1.60, 1.43–1.79); the E-value for current ASD was 1.97, and no measured covariate was associated with both vaccination and autism in the same direction at this magnitude. Adjusted odds rose monotonically with dose count (current ASD 1.03, 1.25, 1.40 for 1, 2, ≥3 doses vs 0). The association (current ASD) was largest in the youngest exposed cohort: ≥3 doses vs 0 at ages 5–7, aOR 2.54 (1.33–4.84); ages 2–7, 2.37 (1.38–4.10); and among children first vaccinated at age ≤5 at least one year before interview, 2.46 (1.08–5.62; 9 exposed cases). Under propensity-score overlap weighting, which eliminated all measured covariate imbalance, the autism association was unchanged and remained significant (lifetime 1.23, 1.01–1.50; current 1.26, 1.03–1.56), while the negative-control outcomes of emergency-department visits and hospitalization were close to the null (0.95 and 1.02). Estimates were unchanged after restriction to children without asthma, diabetes, or fair/poor health (n = 16,803; both vaccines vs neither, 1.51, 1.17–1.95), and persisted after additional adjustment for emergency-department use, hospitalization, and prescription use (1.31, 1.04–1.66). In direct comparison, COVID-19-vaccine-only children (n = 3,205) had higher odds of ASD than influenza-vaccine-only children (n = 3,763; 1.45, 1.03–2.05) despite lower odds of asthma (0.73) and emergency-department visits (0.77). Anxiety showed partial specificity (COVID-19 vaccine 1.34 vs influenza vaccine 1.07 at ages 5–11). Against the unvaccinated reference; however, influenza-vaccine-only and COVID-19-vaccine-only, point estimates were similar and modest (1.11 and 1.12) for ASD. Likewise, HPV vaccination was modestly associated with ASD 1.17 (0.74–1.85). The ASD association was amplified among children receiving both (influenza and COVID-19) vaccines (1.42–1.51). Associations for current ASD weakened with time since first dose, and the COVID-19 vaccine association was confined to girls (1.60 vs boys 1.08; interaction p = 0.02).

Conclusions: In a direct comparison of COVID-19-vaccinated with unvaccinated children in a nationally representative U.S. sample, COVID-19 vaccination was associated with higher adjusted odds of autism, ADHD, anxiety, special-education use, and mental-health treatment. The autism association persisted across every adjustment tier; was unchanged under propensity-score balancing that removed all measured covariate imbalance and nullified the acute-care negative controls; was robust to restriction to physically healthy children; increased monotonically with dose count; was largest in the youngest exposed cohorts, including children vaccinated before the school-entry diagnostic window; and exceeded that of influenza vaccination in direct comparison. These properties satisfy the strength, consistency, biological gradient, plausibility, and coherence considerations for causal inference, and no measured confounder explains them. Because the cross-sectional design cannot order exposure and diagnosis, a global scheduled combination childhood vaccine effect on neurodevelopment cannot be evaluated. A linked birth-cohort study of toddlers before age 3 capturing co-administered vaccines, incident diagnoses, and pre-specified negative controls would be the next step in evaluating this concerning association. (See link for full study)

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**UPDATE**

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) states in its September 9, 2026, shutdown contingency plan that its pandemic preparedness agency will suspend Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) execution and congressionally mandated preparedness evaluations while continuing to negotiate, award, and manage biodefense contracts. You can contact HHS here.

https://read.sayerji.com/p/they-built-a-machine-to-treat-you?

They Built a Machine to Treat You as a Terrorist Threat. The Justice Department Just Published the Blueprints.

Five years ago I warned that the government was preparing to treat people who questioned COVID policy as a domestic-terror problem. The receipts are in.

Sayer Ji

Oct. 8, 2026

Empty school board meeting room with rows of folding chairs and a lectern
Five years ago I warned that the government was preparing to treat people who questioned COVID policy as a domestic-terror problem. A 273-page DOJ report, released October 5, 2026, now shows exactly how it was done, who was targeted, and why it should matter to every reader of this newsletter.

On August 13, 2021, the Department of Homeland Security issued a terrorism bulletin that listed “grievances over public health safety measures and perceived government restrictions” among the drivers of domestic terrorism, and promised to “identify and evaluate” online activity “associated with the spread of disinformation, conspiracy theories, and false narratives.”

The next day I published a piece on GreenMedInfo saying plainly what the bulletin implied: that people who questioned, resisted, or disobeyed COVID restrictions, or who questioned the vaccines, were being moved into the category of potential domestic terrorists. I wrote that the people being described this way were mostly mothers and fathers, many with vaccine-injured children, who were questioning the medical system for the first time in their lives.

I was told that was paranoid. And that I was a “super-spreader” of dangerous misinformation.

On October 5, 2026, the Department of Justice released a report by its Weaponization Working Group, with 250 pages of internal emails attached, showing what happened in the ten weeks after that bulletin. I have reviewed all 273 pages. This is what they say, in plain language, and what it means for you.

The machine is not partisan and it is not gone. Tip portals, threat tags, private “NGO reporting” contracts, and counter-misinformation offices are infrastructure. They outlive the administration that built them. The only reason we can read these emails is that one administration chose to release documents about the previous one. The next one can choose otherwise. (See link for chronology as well as steps that need to be taken)

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**Comment**

Ji says the following steps are crucial so history doesn’t repeat itself:

  • Extend the file review and apology process to ANYONE whose name is on the ‘naughty’ list.
  • Release the communications.
  • Make it illegal to rebuild. The Senate Commerce Committee has already advanced S. 4749, the JAWBONE Act, which would bar federal officials from coercing platforms to suppress lawful speech. Call your senators and ask them to pass it. Then ask your representative for a House companion. Restore the First, has scripts and a lookup tool.
  • Join Stand For Health freedom and take action with their advocacy tools. And share the platform widely with those you know who are.
  • Pre-order Ji’s upcoming investigative book, Shadow Empire: The Epstein Files, to educate yourself on how the systems of power that operate with impunity expose themselves in the 3.5 million document release from Jan. of this year. Ji recently reported on Epstein’s plan to create a “Mother’s Army” to target their children for vaccination directly. The truth must get out.

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