Annie Seth authored the following press release for UMC.
The number of COVID-19 hospitalizations is on the rise in Mississippi and nationwide, prompting infectious disease experts from the University of Mississippi Medical Center to encourage taking precautions to limit the spread of the virus as well as influenza and RSV.
Nationally, COVID-19 hospitalizations over the past week numbered 18,871, an increase of 8.7% over the previous week, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In Mississippi, 1,883 COVID-19-like illnesses in the week ending Aug. 26, and 134 new COVID-19-related hospital admissions were reported to the CDC in the week ending Sept. 2. Though that’s an increase of more than 32% over the 101 admissions reported Aug. 5, it’s far less than the 1,360 COVID-19 related hospitalizations recorded Jan. 22, 2022, during the Omicron surge. The national figure for COVID-19 hospitalizations at that time was about 150,000.
“The CDC’s COVID-19 data tracker for Mississippi shows an uptick in COVID-19 circulation in the community, and other viruses are circulating, too,” said Dr. Bhagyashri Navalkele, medical director for infection prevention at UMMC. “With the rise in viral infections, choosing to take precautions such as practicing good hand hygiene and getting vaccinated against COVID-19 will protect you as well as our high-risk patient population.”
COVID-19 vaccines that have been updated to fight current variants are expected to be available as soon as this month.
Respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, can also be dangerous, particularly for young children, even those who had no pre-existing conditions. Most babies who were critically ill with RSV in 2022 were full term and previously healthy, UMMC researchers reported in a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
During the summers of 2022 and 2021, the state’s only children’s hospital, Children’s of Mississippi, saw increases in the number of patients hospitalized with RSV. Spread via respiratory droplets from coughing or sneezing, RSV is among the causes of pneumonia and bronchiolitis in children younger than 1.
The virus leads to about 80,000 hospitalizations with as many as 300 deaths among children younger than 5 each year, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistics show. On Sept. 5, the CDC released an alert on the spread of RSV in the southeastern U.S.
RSV is very common, said Dr. Laura Wright-Sexton, assistant professor of pediatric critical care and one of the study’s authors. However, it is difficult to predict which children will become seriously ill from RSV.
“RSV is a major contributor to pediatric illness in the PICU,” she said. “We often see children, 2 years of age and younger, who end up with significant viral pneumonia and respiratory failure, due to the virus. The younger patients tend to have more severe disease and a higher likelihood of requiring intubation, aligning with the study data.”
In the multi-state study, about 81% of the babies critically ill with RSV did not have an underlying medical condition. About 24% of the infants needed intubation for breathing.
This year, parents have a new preventative measure to take against RSV. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Beyfortus, a monoclonal antibody injection for newborns and infants during their first RSV season. Children up to age 2 who have pre-existing conditions such as a congenital heart condition or breathing difficulties can receive another dose during their second RSV season.
"I absolutely recommend the monoclonal antibody for all qualifying children, following the CDC’s new guidelines,” Wright-Sexton said. “It is another tool in our toolbox to help protect the children of Mississippi.”
On Aug. 21, the FDA approved Abrysvo, the first vaccine approved for use in pregnancy to prevent lower respiratory tract disease (LRTD) caused by RSV in infants from birth to 6 months. In May, Abrysvo was approved for prevention of LRTD from RSV in adults 60 and older. RSV results in at least 60,000 hospitalizations of adults 65 and older each year.
The CDC and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists have recommended vaccines for pertussis, influenza and COVID-19 in pregnancy to protect mothers and their babies.
Influenza vaccines for this season are available at clinics and pharmacies around the state for eligible adults and children 6 months and older.
Other ways to keep RSV, COVID-19 and other viruses at bay include washing hands with soap and water, avoiding contact with people who are sick, covering mouths with the inside of the elbow when coughing or sneezing, and not sharing cups or glasses.
Staying home when experiencing symptoms is an effective way of keeping others safe. COVID-19 and influenza share some of the same symptoms, including fever, chills, shortness of breath, fatigue, sore throat, congestion, body aches, headaches and vomiting. Change in or loss of taste or smell can occur in flu, but it is more often a symptom of COVID-19.
RSV symptoms include a runny nose, coughing, sneezing, fever and wheezing as well as a decrease in appetite.
Dr. Anita Henderson, a pediatrician with the Hattiesburg Clinic and past president of the Mississippi chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said the increase in COVID-19 cases coincided with the start of a new school year.
“My advice to parents would be to have your child evaluated for any symptoms including fever, cough and shortness of breath,” she said.
COVID-19 vaccination for young children will lower their risk of COVID-19 and its complications, Henderson said. “There are many babies who have been born in the last year who are not vaccinated and have no immunity to COVID-19. If your child is 6 months or older, we do recommend the COVID-19 vaccine. We hope to have new updated boosters available in the next month, which will help protect against newer variants.”
Adults and children with conditions that put them at elevated risk for complications of viral infections should stay up to date with their boosters, Henderson said. “Children with asthma, diabetes, and other chronic medical conditions should make sure they are up to date on their COVID-19 vaccine and flu vaccine this fall.”
While RSV usually peaks in winter, Henderson encourages families to take precautions now. “We encourage grandparents who are 60 and above to get the RSV vaccine to protect themselves and their grandbabies,” she said. “We are hopeful that the RSV prevention monoclonal antibody Beyfortus will be available soon. It will be an important tool to help protect babies from RSV illnesses and hospitalizations.”
87 comments:
Where do i get in line?
Nope - not falling for this again.
I forgot how much KF loves vaccines.
For now, CDC guidelines are bait for, at best, experimental, exorbitantly profitable Pfizer, Moderna, J&J shots that pay, among other juicy perks in federal health bureaucracy, for Fauci's lawyers, his resort home in Maui & Florida and a yacht to get back and forth from the highest paying job in DC.
CDC places the value of your life on par with mutilated lab beagles.
So just wash your hands, disinfect grocery cart handles, get and stay fit and avoid crowds.
As someone who has still never had Covid, Imma' take my chances and live my life unrestricted and without additional precautions.
Seems the common sense approach I have been using thus far is plenty sufficient.
I have no issues with people who prefer to be hypervigilant either.
Live and let live.
Thanks for the heads-up. I’ll exercise an abundance of caution concerning any pronouncements I hear from our trustworthy, reliable, independent, vaunted medical establishment.
So now it is "COVID-19 like illnesses." Good lord. 1,883 people out of a population of 3.3M is .05% of the population. The national hospitalization statistic of 18,871 out of 330M (conservative number) population is a minute percentage at best.
Keep perspective people. Keep perspective.
There is a lot of wishful thinking in this report and analysis.
There is no data that vaccinating children (especially as your as 6 mom.) will help rather than harm them.
There is no data that the new booster will do anything: No data that it cost the infection rate. No data that it will decrease hospitalization rates. No data that it will decrease severe outcomes.
I am pro-vaccines. But this one is rolled out with just about zip data. We do know that 50 adults (studied) had a higher titer of antibodies. That is it.
The rest is wishful thinking.
Two weeks to flatten the curve . . .
Does anyone know how much money UMC made off of Covid?
"COVID-19 vaccination for young children will lower their risk of COVID-19 and its complications, Henderson said. “There are many babies who have been born in the last year who are not vaccinated and have no immunity to COVID-19. If your child is 6 months or older, we do recommend the COVID-19 vaccine. We hope to have new updated boosters available in the next month, which will help protect against newer variants.”
If this "doctor" is your child's pediatrician, RUN!!!
Paid for by Pfizer and Moderna.
No thanks!
While Fauci smiles all the way to the bank.
What are Covid-like illnesses?
"COVID-19-like illnesses"
Expect to conveniently see a reduction in influenza.
Trust the science
mail in ballots grant instant immunity
I will exercise caution, but that is ALL I will do. No shots, no more masks, no staying at home for countless days, etc., etc., etc. Basically, none of that BS that we went thru the last time.
After all of the lies we were told multiplied by how many politicians we elected just for their ability to lie, does anyone really expect the people to fall for more of the above again?
Funny.
China is having a banking crisis so we might somehow pull back ahead of them.
Then a state agency finds a Gavin Newsome funded, clandestine Chinese Bio-lab in California
And the election is right around the corner
This isn’t fishy at all.
Damn traitorous democrats!
You won’t get away with it again!
@10:21 - agreed!
does anyone know what the hospitalization rate was for the flu and rsv in the years prior to covid?
Democrats want anarchy and civil war. They don't care how many have to collaterally die in order to achieve their total subjugation of the American populace.
I'm glad to know that there are so many infectious disease experts on this blog. I will start trusting the comment section instead of medical professionals who know what they are talking about. The tin foil hats are on overdrive today.
September 13, 2023 at 10:57 AM, I do trust the science, but the ones handling the science, I don't trust them, not at all.
September 13, 2023 at 11:13 AM, do you have your tin foil hat on correctly? How many times do you have to be lied to?
@11:13 - if your 'medical professionals' are some of those that think that a cloth mask actually does anything to deter covid, then I'll stick to the blog commenters. cloth mask -> covid is analogous to erecting a chain-link fence to keep mosquitos out of your yard.
I know a few people who have had Covid recently. It’s certainly going around. I guess most of the commenters here think the doctors that diagnosed them were lying to them as part of a grand global conspiracy to usher in communism. I don’t buy that line of thinking, but you can’t fix stupid so believe what you want. I’ll be getting my flu shot this week and a Covid booster when they are available. Do as you please, but if you’re sick, stay home!
@11:13
Let us all review the list of lies the “experts” told us last time.
Remember when they said the vaccine would prevent you from catching covid?
Then they said the vaccine would prevent the transmission of covid?
Then they said the vaccine makes the symptoms less severe.
They mocked Invermectin as a “horse dewormer” while it was used effectively all over the world as a covid treatment and the Japanese scientists ultimately proved the efficacy of Invermectin and have included it as part of their covid treatment regimen.
As an suspicious observer, it appears that the Facebook and 4chan conspiracy theorists won all arguments last time!
We're all going to die anyway.
I’m not playing this game again. They think we’re idiots.
If you can't question the "science," it's not science, it's propaganda.
Oh shut up Lou Ann.
This is just another distraction of the extreme incompetence of the sippy cup criminal pedo Xiden.
@ZBPB
Seeing as you have told us on numerous occasions that you are elderly, you should get the vaccine. You are literally the only demographic who needs it. You and your wife are far past the age of worrying about sterilization and if you have a myocardial infarction then it won’t seem nearly as devastating as if you are an otherwise healthy (but vaccinated) 19 year old high school athlete dying during a pep rally! (Many such cases)
"America will fall without a shot being fired. It will fall from within."
"The press is our chief ideological weapon."
"We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within."
~ Nakita Khrushchev, Soviet Union General Secretary (1953-1964)
Sorry for the post and delete. Let me say it again.
It makes me feel good to see there are so many posting comments who say they will avoid the covid vaccine "like the plague". (please excuse that tongue in cheek statement. I know the difference between Yersinia pestis - a species of bacteria with a rat vector that causes Plague, and SARS-CoV-2, which is the early version of a highly contagious Corona Virus, usually transmitted by aerosol exposure) I learned this many years ago in grad school pathogenic microbiology and virology courses I took.
I know SARS-CoV-2 was not around back then, but similar viruses were. The versions of Corona viruses we had back then were not nearly so bad back as our modern version, nowhere nearly the killers that Covid has turned out to be. They did mutate constantly, just were not so likely to kill or cause permanent damage.
All of you who say, "Never in a million years will I get the vaccine" just make the line shorter for me and my wife when we go get our shot in the next couple of weeks. Thanks for risking the Covid hit so that it won't be as long a wait when I go do the right thing that I learned was a good idea a long time ago. Back in the days when I had no real desire to work in a virology lab and risk viral infection.
@11:13 please share the address of the rock you are living under so I too can share in the bliss of your ignorance.
One of my biggest regrets is getting the two shot Phizer vaccine back in 2021. I am a healthy 40 y/o male and I started having heart issues after getting the shots. Spent about $10k (before insurance) running tests with a cardiologist, and now have a prescription med for the palpitations. I got the shot out of fear, and looking back I now see how stupid I was.
No trial was conducted evaluating a two-dose primary series of the XBB.1.5 vaccine in children 6 months to 4 years old.
But yeah we are the tin foil hatters…
Do you know how insane it is that these “doctors” are recommending a Covid vaccine for children who are almost at zero risk of a serious bout with Covid? It’s insane and should make any reasonable person question what has happened to medicine?
Bear, veiled condescension and your appeal as an authority is noted. You and the Mrs. could have just gotten your shots, said nothing and achieved more.
I have two female friends under the age of 40 who had to relearn to walk due to Guillain-Barre after Covid Boosters so you and your wife enjoy Poly. With my own eyes watched a marathon runner become an invalid. After months of therapy they are mostly ok, and yes this can happen with any vaccine.
I am pro vaccine and will likely take the Shingles stab someday but the flu? Covid? Nah, I have had it and lived just fine.
I am healthy, eat right and exercise and I will take my chances with my own immune system rather than volunteer for a covid like illness vaccine or even a flu shot that I don't need.
If I am sick I will stay home and get better.
Pretty common sense to me.
I am waiting for 11:13 to provide an update to his/her comment after reading those put forth by 11:18, 11:22, 11:28 and 11:37.
I know one thing for certain. I’m buying Pfizer and Moderna stock this time! I will NOT miss out on that taxpayer funded stock price gravy train again! Fooled me once! I have to offset the inflation somehow!
Had original shot and one booster, got the virus eventually anyway. Worst was hellfire sore throat. My occasional GP doc recommends and takes all the shots & boosters, but has suffered through the virus twice, anyway.
I had COVID a few weeks ago. The NP I saw told me that the doctor's offices are not even reporting COVID cases to the health department any longer. So, I'm curious how the "powers that be" know how many people actually have had it......
I see the Covid/Covfefe idiots are out in full force today.
Tell them @11:13, we have always been at war with Eurasia.
All you tinfoil nutters are the reason Mississippi is in last place, and Jackson has water issues, and the reason minorities are marginalized and disenfranchised. You are despicable! It feels like you want people to die!
Wasn't Pfizer losing a lot of money just a short time ago?
Perfect timing.
Ah, back to, We all gotta die sometime. Vaccines and masks will not stop death. You die when it's time to die.
It is caused natural selection. The dumber you are, the earlier you exit the earth. Skip the vaccines, skip the masks, enjoy life the way that you want to. See ya later. (much later)
@11:13 it's apparent you have been chewing on your tinfoil hat!
More BS from the progressive, insane, morally bankrupt leftist democRATS.
11:52 When you added the phrase "do the right thing" to your scolding, it became instantly clear what "type" of person was writing that screed. Everything you typed before and after that point was immediately read as propaganda.
Look, people can either take or not take all the vaccinations they want. That's their decision alone. Just consider the sources of the guidance you choose to follow. Look at them, and consider which ones have been truthful and which ones have not. Consider which ones allowed you to look at BOTH sides of the argument and make your vaccination decision based on both. As someone wrote above, if you're not allowed to question what you're being told, the information from the censoring side is most likely to be propaganda.
My decision on whether to take the Covid-19 vaccination was based on my inability to find and assess a counterpoint to the prevailing "wisdom." Didn't that bother any of you? There's this novel virus running rampant, and there's only one path being taken to fight it? Really? No early treatment, just wait for a vaccine? I'm not in the medical field, but even I'm smart enough to know something is wrong with that model. Turns out, there's AMPLE evidence now to show my instincts were right.
Again, it's everyone's right to either take or not take Covid shots (CLEARLY not a vaccine), but at least take a look at the countervailing evidence and see if what the singular-track "experts" have been telling you for the last 3 years has actually PROVEN to be true. You owe it to yourself to do that.
The good news about the antivaxxers on this site (and there are many) is that their actions thin the herd. Less stupid in our country. Of course, KF loses a bunch of regular commenters. Oh well. I have gotten every vaccination offered. Still haven't gotten COVID. Not sure why I haven't gotten it yet, but I'm going to stick with the recommendations from medical professionals versus the KF trolls who get their news from Fox and email from their brother-in-law bubbas. Yeah, I would stay away from vaccines if I were you. Good call.
Quoting September 13, 2023 at 10:21 AM
"Good lord. 1,883 people out of a population of 3.3M is .05% of the population. The national hospitalization statistic of 18,871 out of 330M (conservative number) population is a minute percentage at best.
Keep perspective people. Keep perspective."
My personal opinion on whether to vaccinate, wear masks, etc. or not is irrelevant. What is relevant and factual is that people did contract this virus, people were hospitalized and people died.
In all of your statistical brilliance, let me ask for your "perspective" on this - If you or a loved one (if you have any) were among your .05% quoted calculation, would you lose your perspective and arrogance?
Let us not forget that last time they played Plandemic dictators the global left robbed individuals of their rights for refusing to take the experimental mRNA therapy (not a real vaccine) they robbed people of their livelihoods by forcing them to quit their jobs if they refused the jab. People were scorned and humiliated, utterly robbed of all dignity. People had their bank account frozen. I think the ugliest and most terrifying aspect was not how the “state” acted during covid, but how vicious the leftest hive-mind became. It left me with no remaining doubts about how the left will react when another socialist dictator comes to power. You literally had people like Brian Seltzer frothing at the mouth, giddily demanding that the unvaxxed be denied treatment for illnesses that weren’t related to Covid-19. It was sickeningly un-American. What a little demonic troll he was.
"The good news about the antivaxxers on this site (and there are many) is that their actions thin the herd."
Go look in the data at who is driving the increased hospitalizations from Covid right now. Spoiler alert: it isn't the ones who can think for themselves and chose not to take the Covid vaccine.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-lifestyle/fda-advisory-panel-widely-used-decongestant-considered-ineffective
Amazingly the FDA is now stating that Sudafed and other similar OTC meds aren't effective as decongestants. Apparently had been looking into these claims since 2007.
I wonder what they will be saying about the various COVID vaxs in 15 years. One thing they can't say: they didn't prevent infection.
Fauci (Fauxchi) is doing the happy dance as he watches his big pharma stock increase in value.
"The good news about the antivaxxers on this site (and there are many) is that their actions thin the herd. Less stupid in our country. Of course, KF loses a bunch of regular commenters. Oh well. I have gotten every vaccination offered. Still haven't gotten COVID. Not sure why I haven't gotten it yet, but I'm going to stick with the recommendations from medical professionals versus the KF trolls who get their news from Fox and email from their brother-in-law bubbas. Yeah, I would stay away from vaccines if I were you. Good call."
September 13, 2023 at 2:21 PM
Please continue to believe that! (assuming you actually believe any of the "points" you post) And PLEASE get every vaccine and every booster, as they come available! And I certainly hope that whoever is paying you to post what you're posting, REQUIRES YOU to get vaxxed. It's only fair...
Covid vaccines - the shots heard (felt) round the world.
2:34 please adjust your tinfoil hat. Nobody was forced to do anything. Tin foil anti-vaxxers were allowed to be ignorant and put everyone at risk while the emotionally intelligent and responsible adults in society got their vaccines. It’s not at all a coincidence that successful people got vaccinated while the ignorant poors refused the common sense/common good solution that was available at the time.
@3:17 - they disclosed all his stock holdings, no individual stocks, just some funds like the rest of us. When you attack someone with lies, it only reflects on your own ignorance and deception.
@2:43 - I looked it up and it shows the compete opposite of what you stated. If you don’t know how to read, let us know and maybe someone can get on a phone call with you to read off the numbers so you don’t have to make up these dumbass claims.
Two weeks to flatten the curve😂😂😂😂😂😂
@10:29
Since it’s too late to fill the churches on Easter this year, let’s all trick or treat inside the coliseum. Costume mask only. No social distancing.
What happened to the various flu’s we were hit with throughout the years?
Kingfish, would it be possible to add 'Tinfoil' and 'Tinfoil Hat' to the list of words and phrases which get automatically filtered-out?
@7:30 PM - Your tinfoil hat has slipped down over your eyes.
@7:30 PM
Triggered much?
“@2:43 - I looked it up and it shows the compete opposite of what you stated. If you don’t know how to read, let us know and maybe someone can get on a phone call with you to read off the numbers so you don’t have to make up these dumbass claims.“
It’s directly from the CDC but good try though.
2:34 please adjust your tinfoil hat. Nobody was forced to do anything. Tin foil anti-vaxxers were allowed to be ignorant and put everyone at risk while the emotionally intelligent and responsible adults in society got their vaccines. It’s not at all a coincidence that successful people got vaccinated while the ignorant poors refused the common sense/common good solution that was available at the time.
September 13, 2023 at 5:51 PM
Well, 5:51, I hate to bust your bubble, but I am a healthy 70 year old who has been advised by physicians at UMMC, Baptist and St. D's not to take any more boosters. If they aren't being jabbed, that's good enough for me. Where did you get your MD from?
@9:59 - not according to the cdc. The green line that spikes towards r
the top of the graph represents the unvaccinated. The flat line at the bottom shows the vaccinated hospitalizations.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covid-net/hospitalizations-by-vaccination-status-report.pdf
The funniest part about the shot fan girls is that they all get every stab and yet they all have had Covid. Some more than once.
I rarely wore a mask, no shots, and just kept living my relatively healthy lifestyle and I am the only person in my circle that has not ever had Covid.
Yet STILL they feel they are in a position to tell me to get a shot. It is hilarious.
It seems like yall are the ones way more likely to die than me. But it is also your choice to take all the shots and bathe in hand sanitizer and unlike you rude, judgey folks...I wont begrudge you of your dumb choices.
Anyone who disagrees with anyone is a tin foil hat wearer.
Its so silly.
Especially given that so many looney conspiracy theories have been proven at least partially correct in the recent years.
The tin foil hat is hardly an insult anymore, and mostly means you are just thinking for yourself.
If my gubment (at any level) 'requires' me to take a shot, it better be with a .45 'cause no way in hell will I go through all the hell caused by Moderna two years ago.
@8:16 AM
There is a BIG difference between thinking for yourself and believing outlandish conspiracy theories that you read on social media. If you have preconceived notions that the government and media are always lying to you then you are going to believe the conspiracy theories. Facts are facts, but you can't fix stupid.
September 14, 2023 at 9:08 AM, what facts are in your post? Yes, I don't believe you, the media, are the damn government. The last two have lied repeatedly over the last three years, and continue to hide, lie, and misrepresent facts. You can't be trusted, because you can't tell the difference between a lie, and the truth.
9:08 conflates gov't with "fact providers" and conflates skepticism with conspiracy. So 9:07 is who political lies are shaped to trap and enslave.
My father never had the option of getting the vaccine. He got sick from a home health nurse who didn’t believe in masks (yes she was a Trump supporter) and got sick in November 2020. He passed away from COVID months later in April 2021. He never came home from the hospital. To all those who never altered their behavior, masked up nor got vaccinated, your choices affect others.
I never got the vaccine,wore a mask, got any boosters or Covid during the pandemic. Does that make me a tin foil hat wearer?
Im not a Trump supporter and I am not wearing a mask.
Im also not a home health worker and I would probably fire any nurse that did not wear one around a sick elderly family member.
Wright-Sexton said. “It is another tool in our toolbox to help protect the children of Mississippi.”
Damn, “tool,” “toolbox,” “protect,” “children,” it’s all there, the perfect storm of a propaganda word salad. My chin is quivering and I am filled with feelings of resolve and indomitability.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
@7:30 PM - Your tinfoil hat has slipped down over your eyes.
September 13, 2023 at 9:01 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
@7:30 PM
Triggered much?
September 13, 2023 at 9:48 PM
No, but if you were MY paid troll, you wouldn't be getting your check. I'd expect my people to come up with insults which were not so tiresomely-ANCIENT. Really, don't your bosses expect you to sound less STALE?
I have noticed that many older people still "follow the science" and do whatever the authorities say they should in regards to the "vaccines". I have also noticed that this demographic gets most of their information from mainstream media - at least in the limited examples I can personally see.
It is amazing that people still are falling for the lies and taking these shots, which have been exposed as a fraud, don't protect anyone, and actually cause harm. My theory is that many of these folks cannot bear to consider the possibility that that they were bamboozled, and further (especially) that they encouraged their loved ones to take a harmful shot. So they keep the blinders on and refuse to consider anything other than what they already believe.
September 14, 2023 at 2:15 PM, the fact you believe a mask can stop a virus negates any self-righteous condescension you may be trying to project. Get a grip, it's apparent you don't have one now. This also applies to all others that believe that nonsense.
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