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Are the Boosted Really 97 Times Less Likely to Die Than the Unvaccinated? Dr. McCullough & Links to Resources

https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/are-the-boosted-really-97-times-less

Are the Boosted Really 97 Times Less Likely to Die Than the Unvaccinated?

Well, that depends on the definition of the phrase “To Die”- specifically how long you count – and if you ignore natural immunity.

On 2/2/2022, at a Press Briefing, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky reported that people who are boosted are 97 times less likely to die than the “unvaccinated”.

  1. These are weekly death rates. We need much longer term data, especially given the unexplained increases in all-cause mortality. Using weekly death infection/hospitalization/death rates to compare boosters is like measuring the protection of houses doused with water for ten minutes during a raging forest fire. “100% of houses were saved while they were being doused”… Come on, talk w/us in a year.
  2. Walensky left out any reference or comparison of the rates of death due to new infection in persons who are boosted to rates of death due to new infection in persons who are unvaccinated. This is important, because if you exclude people w/natural immunity, you’re comparing apples and oranges. And if you combine the vaccinated w/no prior infection with the vaccinated with prior infection, you’re combining clinical groups and ignoring a major contributor to variation in outcome. The last study of efficacy of natural immunity was that immunity lasted 13 months (Pubmed).
  3. Walensky (and others) are being super inconsistent in their data, as well.

At the White House presser, Jeff Zients, “Counselor to the President”, reported

“A year ago, we stood up a historic nationwide vaccination program that’s now gotten 75 percent of adults in the U.S. fully vaccinated.”

Wrong. Our World in Data reports 64.3% of Americans as “Fully Vaccinated” (according to CDC), “fully vaccinated” means “received two doses of Moderna or Pfizer” or “one dose of Johnson & Johnson”.

As long as they keep getting it wrong, real-world perception will not match reality, and vaccine skepticism will continue to grow.

The 2/2/2022 Press Briefing

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https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/dr-peter-mccullough-on-the-joe-rogan

Dr. Peter McCullough on The Joe Rogan Show – Links to Resources (Urgent Share)

Links to resources mentioned. We must change allopathy from the outside in. Share w/nurses and doctors. Share everywhere.

James Lyons-Weiler

Feb. 7, 2022

Following Dr. McCullough’s jaw-dropping appearance on The Joe Rogan Show, I asked him for his slides so I could locate the resources he cited.

Dr. McCullough is experienced. He is precise. He is humble. He and others like him are saving lives. His protocols and messages should be required curriculum for all medical students and continuing medical education for all practicing physicians and nurses.

This article contains links to the resources he mentioned to Joe. Click on each image for the resource. (Note: This article is too long for all it to appear in your inbox, so you’ll need to visit the full article at Substack.)

The main points he made include:

  • COVID-19 pandemic is a global disaster (mass-casualty event).
  • For him, it’s not treatment vs. vaccine.
  • The prehospital phase is a major therapeutic opportunity.
  • The pathophysiology of COVID-19 is complex is not amenable to single drug.
  • Early ambulatory therapy with a sequenced, multi-drug regimen is supported by available sources of evidence and has a positive benefit-to-risk profile.
  • Protection from COVID-19 vaccines is not sufficiently complete or durable and we need to add multimodal treatments.
  • We can reduce the risk of hospitalization and death.
  • We can more safely temporize to close the crisis with herd immunity.
  • COVID-19 genetic vaccines have an unfavorable safety profile.
  • Censorship and reprisal are working to crush freedom of speech, scientific discourse, and medical progress.

Hydroxychloroquine factory fire in Taiwan

LINK Jessica Rose VAERS Study: More reports of deaths following COVID-19 vaccines than from all other vaccines combined all prior years.

LINK Study showing that healthy boys have considerably higher chances of hospitalization with myocarditis than with COVID-19 respiratory illness even at peak prevalence.

LINK Choi S, Lee S, Seo JW, Kim MJ, Jeon YH, Park JH, Lee JK, Yeo NS. Myocarditis-induced Sudden Death after BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination in Korea: Case Report Focusing on Histopathological Findings. J Korean Med Sci. 2021 Oct 18;36(40):e286. doi: 10.3346/jkms.2021.36.e286. PMID: 34664804; PMCID: PMC8524235.

Enough deaths in UK Yellow Card for any other product to be pulled.

Breakthrough cases are substantial and can be deadly.

The vaccine efficacy has waned.

Early aggressive treatments now needed more than ever.

Dr. McCullough’s ground-breaking first papers. Essential reading for all physicians.

Patients at and before different stages need different targeted therapies.

You cannot catch COVID-19 twice. Period.

Ivermectin disinformation is killing people.

The mass psychosis follows previous planned mass psychoses.

Seduction of children on Sesame Street, the book and Joe Rogan appearance below.

(See link for pictures, graphs, and links)

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[#MeAgain] New Beginnings: How Nicole Williams Overcame Lyme and Began a Journey to Start a Family

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Interview by Jenny Lelwica Buttaccio
Posted 1/6/22

Born and raised in Southern California, ticks weren’t on Nicole Williams’ radar while growing up. Though she was an adventurous person — traveling, exploring, and studying abroad when she could — she didn’t spend much time in wooded areas, so tick-borne diseases like Lyme disease weren’t a cause for concern.

In 2014, Nicole decided to move to Nashville, Tennessee, excited about the new possibilities and opportunities that awaited her. But eight months into her stay, she began to experience a range of unusual symptoms: brain fog, joint and nerve pain, and memory problems were just some of the issues she dealt with. As a travel writer and editor, she also noticed her ability to articulate words began to diminish, and she was having trouble getting out of bed some days.

Nicole at pumpkin harvest farm, smiling

In search of answers, Nicole saw doctor after doctor, but they didn’t know what was wrong with her. With the ongoing, supportive help of her mother and the suggestion of a family friend, she was tested for Lyme disease and received a positive result.

Over the next several years, Nicole embarked on an epic journey to regain her health and her life. Here, she shares the healing story of hope and perseverance, her road to natural and herbal therapies, and finally, to marriage, pregnancy, and beginning her family.

I was trying to find an answer, and my mom had a friend back in California who lived in the neighborhood that she would often run into on walks. They struck up a kind of friendship and would have conversations. This woman suffered for many years with Lyme disease, and every time my mom would tell her about me, she said to my mom, “I think she should get tested for Lyme.” And so, it was my mom who was really championing this, “I think you need to get tested for Lyme disease.”

I struggled with it because I thought, “No, I don’t have Lyme. I’ve never been bitten by a tick. I’ve never really been a woodsy person.” I like adventure, but I don’t go camping. I didn’t think that I had it. But my mom had heard this woman’s story and told me that she’d had it her whole life.

For me, that was the kiss of death — if I got diagnosed with Lyme disease, and it’s a lifelong battle. I didn’t want to hear that. I was hoping for some other diagnosis.

I asked an orthopedic doctor I was seeing in Tennessee if I should have [a Lyme test], and he said, “You know that there’s no Lyme disease here.” But we finally did it, and that test came back negative.

Then, I was in California, and I had a doctor agree to run the test again, and that one came back positive — and this was just the standard lab test. With the positive test, we said, “Okay, now we know what we’re dealing with.” We assumed, based on that positive test result and my clinical symptoms, that I had Lyme disease. That doctor put me on the standard course of doxycycline and said, “Alright, here’s 30 days of antibiotics, and you’ll be fine.” Then, we started researching Lyme-literate doctors in my area.

zoomed out view of Nicole in woods, walking on wooden bridge

I found an LLMD near Nashville and started going to him, and he had me on a cocktail of different antibiotics. I did intravenous UV light therapy because I also had Epstein-Barr. I was on a whole course of all these different meds, and at the time, I thought I was tolerating it all pretty well. He was a proponent of diet as well; I didn’t really believe that the diet would be the answer.

But when I was on all the antibiotics, I cut back on alcohol; I cut back on sugar because I had read that the microbes feed off sugar; I cut out dairy because dairy could counteract some of the antibiotics. So in my head, I had justified a couple of dietary changes to try to increase my chances of treatment working.

But one night, I got up in the middle of the night and had to use the bathroom, and I passed out. I had a display of all the meds I was on, and I had my little pill organizer, and I actually passed out on them. I took that as a sign to say, “I’m done. This is too much. I’m taking too much. I’m overwhelming my body.” I felt some improvement, so I decided to stop the meds.

When I stopped treatment, I added all the stuff back into my diet that I had cut out. I thought, “Well, it doesn’t matter now — I’ll have a little bit of sugar,” and everything came back with a vengeance. My symptoms worsened, and I realized there was more to this — how I eat and what I put in my body — than I wanted to admit initially. One day, I woke up and thought, “Alright. No sugar. No dairy. No soy, corn, or gluten.” I went on a full anti-inflammatory diet, which was really hard.

Through this whole experience, my mom was my biggest advocate, but she also took the brunt of a lot of my pain because I was never ready to hear, “Okay, what’s next? What you’re doing has stopped working. You need to take it to the next level.”

It was actually my mom who stumbled on Dr. Rawls on Facebook. Something came up about one of his webinars. We watched one, and we both ended up reading his book (Unlocking Lyme), but I still waited a long time before starting the herbal protocol. I wasn’t ready to commit to that next thing financially. I just wasn’t there yet.

Then, my now husband proposed, and we were planning our wedding. I wanted to see if herbs could take me to my wedding day feeling more like myself. I was already doing well with the diet, and I was completely homeopathic at that point. I felt good about it because I was giving my body what it needed to be healthy.

Nicole and her husband outdoors, holding baby

I did a consult in January of 2018, and I jumped right in. I did one pill of each for a week and then two pills of each for the next week, and then I was on the full dose and tolerating them well. I started seeing improvements pretty quickly. My wedding was in April of 2018, and I did reach my goal of feeling good on my wedding day. For almost three years, I took full doses of the herbs and knew they were working.

Now, we’ve been married three years. About the two-year mark, we knew things with us were good — and of course, the pandemic happened. But we were both working from home, and we were spending more time together. It felt like the right time for us as a family to talk about having kids. It was a fear of mine that I could pass [Lyme] onto my child. How would I feel if my child was sick because of me?

In November of 2020, I did a consult with Dr. Rawls, and with his history of being an OB, I was curious to hear what he had to say. He gave me a lot of confidence in where I had come in my journey. If you truly believe that chronic illness is an immune dysfunction, there’s not one thing that makes you ill. It’s multiple things: toxins in your environment, toxins in your food, stress, lack of sleep. Why not find harmony with the microbes and find a way to feel better because you’re not going to get rid of them completely?

That was sort of my thought process with procreating: I’ve learned so much about my body and about wellness, well-being, health, food, toxins in my environment and the products I use, and I thought, “If I can take that and apply that to a major life event like a pregnancy or how I raise my child, I’ll feel more equipped to handle whatever comes up in the future.”

In December of 2020, I conceived our son. I decided I was going to stop the herbs and see how my body does, and worst-case scenario, if I need to add them back in postpartum, I will. But I’ve made sure to keep a very clean diet. The pregnancy hormones were wonderful, and I was just really conscious of how I managed my health through the pregnancy.

photo of 4 week old baby boy

In September of 2021, I gave birth to our son Jacob. I wanted to be as natural as I could, so I ended up doing an unmedicated birth. That was a true test of my strength, and I had a really smooth birth. I’m still feeling good to this day — minus a flareup at 10 weeks postpartum. I haven’t added the herbs back yet since I’m breastfeeding, but I take Epsom salts baths and detox as much as possible, but I don’t want to do too much because of breastfeeding.

For me, the takeaway with all of this is that [Lyme] doesn’t go away. I struggled with that for years while I was sick, thinking that this would be my forever, but I’ve found peace with it. I have bad days, but they do pass, and I learned from them and appreciate the good days more.

Looking back, I’m thankful for what I went through because I learned so much in the process. I learned how to be an advocate for myself. I know how to be an advocate for a child. One of my fears was, what if I feel terrible those nine months of pregnancy? How am I going to get through it? But I feel like I learned much more about my body and how to stay healthy in ways that I’m appreciative of now. As a new mom, I now have the tools to get better if a relapse were to happen to me. I know what works. I know what to do, and it’s a constant journey.

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Can Chronic Lyme Be Cured? Dr. Green Answers Questions

https://www.lymedisease.org/christine-green-treating-lyme/

Can chronic Lyme be cured? Dr. Christine Green answers your questions.

Jan. 31, 2022

Christine Green, MD, is a Stanford-trained, board-certified family medicine physician with 30 years of experience treating patients with tick-borne illness.

On the board of LymeDisease.org, Dr. Green is also Co-director of Education for Invisible International,, is on Bay Area Lyme Foundation‘s Scientific Advisory Board and has served on the Education Committee for ILADS.

In this Q&A, she discusses common questions asked by patients about diagnosing and treating Lyme and other tick-borne diseases.

Q: I’m achy and tired all the time. Could I have Lyme disease?

The answer is yes. When a patient comes into my clinic for the first time, I take down their clinical history. If I suspect tick-borne disease, I ask if they’ve been exposed to ticks or tick habitats. Have they observed any rashes?

The typical Lyme rash expands and is ring-like, usually not itchy or painful. If it’s under a person’s hairline, between the toes, or on the back of the body, it may not be noticed. However, at least 21% of Lyme patients, and probably more than 50%, never see a tick or a rash.

Early Lyme patients present with flu-like symptoms. Tick bites and resulting symptoms often occur in the summer, but in my California practice, Lyme season may overlap with the fall/winter flu season, confusing the diagnostic picture.

Next, I do a complete physical exam, with an emphasis on neurological deficits, such as loss of balance, tremors, facial asymmetry (Bell’s Palsy), and asymmetric reflexes. Then, I ask about the progression of their symptoms over time.

In the first few months of Lyme disease, patients often experience malaise, fatigue, mild-to-severe headaches, nerve pain or tingling in the hands or feet, all in a relapsing-remitting course. In other words, the symptoms wax and wane.

If Lyme is diagnosed four or more months after symptom onset, the picture of the disease is different and variable. The longer between infection and diagnosis, the higher likelihood that more bodily systems have been invaded.

Late-stage patients tend to have peripheral nerve symptoms that come and go, and symptoms that migrate to joints, muscles and/or nerves. Most patients with late Lyme have encephalopathy, inflammation of the brain that reduces blood supply in some areas.

This can manifest as sleep problems, memory issues, word-recall problems, or difficulty reading or carrying out executive functions–the mental processes that enable us to plan, focus, remember instructions, and juggle multiple activities. For instance, a person who organizes large events might find that they have trouble completing and sequencing tasks. Things that used to take minutes, take hours.

Patients can also experience cardiac symptoms, including irregular heartbeats, chest pain, or dizziness. These patients often come in misdiagnosed with old age, depression, anxiety, or hypochondriasis (preoccupation with an imagined illness).

Another presentation of this disease is chronic pain. The pain can be widespread and migrate around the body. These patients often come in with a diagnosis of fibromyalgia or new onset migraine headache.

Q: What’s the best test for diagnosing Lyme disease?

First and foremost, Lyme disease, as with any disease, should be diagnosed based on a clinical history and physical exam, not by test results alone.

It’s important to note that the complex, conservative two-tiered testing criteria for “CDC positive cases” was developed for disease-tracking only. It shouldn’t be used by physicians as the sole criteria for diagnosis or denying treatment to patients.

What’s more, not all Lyme tests are created equal. The major labs typically look for only one strain of Lyme bacteria, the B31 strain of Borrelia burgdorferi. I prefer using specialized labs that test for multiple Lyme strains. Three of the labs I use are MDL, Galaxy, and IGeneX.

One tick can inject multiple species of disease-causing microbes in a single blood meal, so, based on symptoms, I sometimes test for other tick-borne infections.

If a patient has night sweats, shortness of breath, stabbing chest pains, or autonomic symptoms (dizziness, nausea, vertigo, flushing), I’ll test for Babesia, a malaria-like red blood cell infection.

For a pinprick rash on the extremities and/or severe illness, I’ll test for spotted fever. Bartonellosis can present in many ways, including neuropathy, or neuropsychiatric symptoms, such as panic attacks, rages, psychosis, and obsessive-compulsive disorders.

Q: Once diagnosed, how should you treat Lyme disease?

Research over the last three decades suggests that Lyme bacteria have multiple ways of evading the human immune system and that treating acute Lyme with 21 days of antibiotics fails approximately a third of patients.

For that reason, I treat in two phases. For early Lyme, I treat with four weeks of doxycycline, amoxicillin, or cefuroxime antibiotics.

I follow this up with four more weeks of drugs that prevent and eradicate “persister” forms of the bacteria. The persisters are drug-tolerant and can revert to an active infection once the antibiotics are stopped.

I aggressively treat late-Lyme patients who have severe degenerative neurologic or rheumatologic cases. As noted above, the very sick patients frequently have a mixture of tick-borne infections.

For these patients, I choose a combination of oral or, when needed, intravenous antibiotics that target the pathogens known to be present.

Q: Can you cure chronic Lyme disease?

In my practice, I’ve helped many of my tick-borne disease patients return to full health. Every patient is unique, with different genetics, co-morbidities, and co-infections. To me, the important thing is to evaluate clinical response and not to cut off treatment at some arbitrary end point.

I assess symptoms at the beginning of each visit, then treat until symptoms improve or resolve. For any patient who is ill for an extended time, after the illness is controlled, I initiate rehabilitation protocols to help the person feel normal again. A patient must become fit to fully recover from a protracted state of ill health.

Click here for LymeDisease.org’s symptom checklist.

Click here to find a Lyme-literate doctor.

Practitioners, to learn more about diagnosing and treating vector-borne diseases, watch Invisible International’s online, evidence-based physician medical education courses.

This blog was originally posted on the website of Invisible International.

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Cannabidiol Inhibits SARS-CoV-2 Replication Through Induction of the Host ER Stress and Innate Immune Responses

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abi6110

Cannabidiol inhibits SARS-CoV-2 replication through induction of the host ER stress and innate immune responses

Science Advances • 20 Jan 2022 • First ReleaseDOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abi6110
Abstract

The spread of SARS-CoV-2 and ongoing COVID-19 pandemic underscores the need for new treatments. Here we report that cannabidiol (CBD) inhibits infection of SARS-CoV-2 in cells and mice. CBD and its metabolite 7-OH-CBD, but not THC or other congeneric cannabinoids tested, potently block SARS-CoV-2 replication in lung epithelial cells. CBD acts after viral entry, inhibiting viral gene expression and reversing many effects of SARS-CoV-2 on host gene transcription. CBD inhibits SARS-CoV-2 replication in part by up-regulating the host IRE1α RNase endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress response and interferon signaling pathways.
In matched groups of human patients from the National COVID Cohort Collaborative, CBD (100 mg/ml oral solution per medical records) had a significant negative association with positive SARS-CoV-2 tests. This study highlights CBD as a potential preventative agent for early-stage SARS-CoV-2 infection and merits future clinical trials. We caution against use of non-medical formulations including edibles, inhalants or topicals as a preventative or treatment therapy at the present time.
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What is the Best Treatment for Chronic EBV?

https://rawlsmd.com/health-articles/what-is-the-best-treatment-for-chronic-epstein-barr-virus?

What Is The Best Treatment for Chronic Epstein-Barr Virus?

by Dr. Bill Rawls
Posted 12/22/21

Chronic Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) often seems to go hand in hand with Lyme disease and other chronic illnesses. Here, Dr. Bill Rawls discusses why some people struggle with the virus more than others and herbs you can take to help normalize your immune system functions. Check out our guide to EBV here.

Video Transcript

Question: What is the best treatment for chronic Epstein-Barr virus?

Carin Gorrell: Let’s talk a little bit about EBV. This is one Epstein-Barr virus. We get a lot of questions about this one. We know a lot of people struggle with it. So Wendy asks, “What is the best treatment for chronic EBV since it’s a virus and not a bacteria?” I think that’s an interesting question.

Dr. Rawls: Well, that’s a nice thing about the herbs again, is you have really wonderful antiviral properties. Reishi mushrooms, which I consider mainly an immune-modulating or immune-balancing adaptogen, have some really nice antiviral properties that have been well documented. Andrographis, wonderful antiviral properties. Neem, wonderful antiviral properties against herpes-type viruses.

So when you have reactivation of many of these viruses like Epstein-Barr and CMV, the antiviral drugs don’t work for them anymore. They will for acute infections, and they do for certain chronic infections like genital herpes or herpes zoster with shingles, but they don’t work for Epstein-Barr, and they don’t work for CMV. It’s really because each of these viruses has particular characteristics of what types of cells they stay dormant in and where they’re located in the body.

So Epstein-Barr typically stays dormant in salivary tissue and lymphoid tissue in the body. But everybody’s got this thing. Most of it, we pick it up when we’re children. We don’t even know about it. If you happen to not get it as a child and get it as an adult when your immune system is down, you can end up with mononucleosis. Mononucleosis does respond to antiviral therapy.

Reactivation of Epstein-Barr as a chronic infection does not. So, typically, if you look for it, most people will have reactivation of Epstein-Barr, and it is because of this whole thing that once you disrupt the immune system, the immune system cannot contain these things anymore so they come back out. But it’s not just Epstein-Barr. It is other viruses, too. You’ve got a full range of viruses, and I think there are probably a lot of things that we don’t know about. Viruses are still undiscovered country. We’re just understanding viruses.

Our environment is littered with viruses. Every surface that you touch has viruses. There are viruses everywhere outdoors. Every time you take a breath, you get viruses that you inhale. Now, fortunately, the thing about viruses is they’re cell specific so most of the things that you pick up can’t connect with your cells, so they can’t do anything to you. But viruses have been loading up in the environment. They’re very resilient. The entire earth is covered in viruses.

But I think there are viruses that we don’t know about yet that do affect us that can cause chronic infections. So, again, that’s a really nice thing about the herbs. The herbs have some direct antiviral properties, but the big thing, the key to this thing is restoration of normal immune system function. So once you get your immune system back, it can contain these things again. You’re not going to eradicate them. I mean, that’s just all there is to it. You have to have a healthy immune system to contain these things. Remarkably important.

Dr. Rawls is a physician who overcame Lyme disease through natural herbal therapy. You can learn more about Lyme disease in Dr. Rawls’ new best selling book, Unlocking LymeYou can also learn about Dr. Rawls’ personal journey in overcoming Lyme disease and fibromyalgia in his popular blog post, My Chronic Lyme Journey.

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**Comment**

Great article that makes some important points.  Viruses are everywhere and you are NOT going to eliminate them.  A ZERO COVID policy is impossible for this reason and all the lockdowns, masks, and human endeavors fly in the face of this scientific fact.  We’ve lived with viruses from the beginning and we will continue to live with them till we are 6 feet underground.  Get used to it.

The important point of getting your immune system to function normally is the most important take-away, and is being completely ignored and denied by mainstream media and medicine alike.  They are ignoring hundreds of years of science and logic to push the very products they have patents on, while banning and censoring actual treatments that work.

I just read an article by Lyme literate Dr. Cameron on how he feels the threat of COVID itself is far greater than the experimental, ineffective, fast-tracked gene-therapy injections, never before used in humans, that he fully admits do not have any safety data supporting them.  He also is being completely illogical, is denying science, and the fact that people are being maimed and killed by these things. He also is denying the importance of getting the immune system back functioning normally – instead of presenting it with another threat – which is how the body responds to “vaccines.” They serve to provoke the immune system into action, and can serve as a trigger that can cause all manner of ill in patients with already dysfunctional immune systems – including reactivating latent infections,  which I’ve personally witnessed.

EBV appears to be a key player in chronic illness.

Succumbing to an experimental injection that doesn’t stop infection or prevent transmission and has the highest recorded adverse reactions & deaths than any other vaccine in the history of VAERS, is foolish considering the risks involved, when there are effective, cheap, safe treatments should you get COVID.  Learn all you can before you need to act. 

Discuss options with your doctor and have a plan before you need it.

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