What The Study Did: New evidence on preventing and treating HIV infection in adults was reviewed to update practice recommendations from the International Antiviral (formerly AIDS) Society–USA.
Authors: Michael S. Saag, M.D., of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2020.17025)
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What The Study Did: National survey data were used to look at how common electronic cigarette use is among U.S. adults, if they were current or former smokers and used e-cigarettes to help quit smoking.
Authors: Margaret Mayer, Ph.D., M.P.H., of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.20694)
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What The Study Did: COVID-19 deaths and excess all-cause mortality in the U.S. are compared with 18 countries with diverse COVID-19 responses in this study.
Authors: Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2020.20717)
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What The Study Did: This study updates a previous report of the estimated number of excess deaths in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic through August 1 and describes causes of those deaths and relationships with lifting of coronavirus restrictions.
Authors: Steven H. Woolf, M.D., MP.H., of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine in Richmond, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2020.19545)
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What The Article Says: This devastating pandemic has affected nearly ev- ery aspect of daily life. While nations struggle to man- age the initial waves of the death and disruption asso- ciated with the pandemic, accumulating evidence indicates another “second wave” is building: rising rates of mental health and substance use disorders.
Authors: Charles R. Marmar, M.D., of the NYU Langone Medical Center in New York, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2020.19632)
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What The Article Says: This Viewpoint aggregates mortality, morbidity, mental health conditions, and direct economic losses to estimate the total cost of the pandemic in the U.S. on the optimistic assumption that it will be substantially contained by the fall of 2021.
Authors: David M. Cutler, Ph.D., of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2020.19759)
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What The Article Says: Ways the COVID-19 pandemic has compounded existing health, human rights and economic disparities in communities of color are discussed in this Viewpoint, which also proposes a program of restorative justice in response, comprising investments in education and housing, reforms in lending practices and criminal justice, and more.
Authors: Lisa A. Cooper, M.D., M.P.H., the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity in Baltimore, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2020.19567)
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What The Study Did: The association between the COVID-19 pandemic and health care-related data collection is examined in this Viewpoint article.
Authors: Makoto Mori, M.D., of the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.5542)
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What The Study Did: The risk of mother-to-newborn transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection was examined in this study.
Authors: Cynthia Gyamfi-Bannerman, M.D., M.Sc., and Melissa S. Stockwell, M.D., M.P.H., of the Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York, are the corresponding authors.
(doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.4298)
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What The Study Did: Researchers examined the association between use of e-cigarettes and self-reported wheezing among adolescents ages 12 to 17.
Authors: Alayna P. Tackett, Ph.D., of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.20671)
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What The Study Did: National survey data were used to examine how rates of alcohol abstinence and marijuana abstinence, the use of both, and use disorders changed among young adults in the United States between 2002 and 2018.
Authors: Sean Esteban McCabe, Ph.D., of the University of Michigan School of Nursing in Ann Arbor, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.3352)
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What The Study Did: This study combined the results of 68 studies with 200,000 patients to estimate the subsequent risk of ischemic stroke (when a blood vessel to the brain is blocked usually by a blood clot) after a transient ischemic attack (TIA)and how that risk has changed over time.
Authors: Ramin Zand, M.D., M.P.H., of Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pennsylvania, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2020.3627)
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What The Study Did: This Viewpoint from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration puts into context recent guidance on clinical trials during COVID-19 for oncology and shares insight regarding regulatory challenges and lessons learned.
Authors: Anand Shah, M.D., of the FDA in Silver Spring, Maryland, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.4975)
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What The Study Did: The complications, safety and timing of tracheotomy performed for critically ill patients with COVID-19 is assessed in this observational study.
Authors: Isabel Vilaseca, M.D., Ph.D., of the Institut Clínic d’Especialitats Mèdiques i Quirúrgiques, Hospital Clínic in Barcelona, Spain, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaoto.2020.3641)
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What The Study Did: This case series examined whether SARS-CoV-2 exists in the ocular tissues of a patient with COVID-19.
Authors: Xiao Chen, M.D., of the General Hospital of the Central Theater Command in Wuhan, China is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2020.3962)
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What The Study Did: Women surgeons were interviewed to better understand workplace conflicts they experience with nonphysician staff members.
Authors: Lesly A. Dossett, M.D., M.P.H., of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.19843)
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What The Study Did: Researchers compared rates of liver transplant wait-listing by race/ethnicity in states that expanded Medicaid after passage of the Affordable Care Act with states that didn’t.
Authors: Lauren D. Nephew, M.D., M.S.C.E., of the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.19869)
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What The Study Did: This case series of 192 patients positive for SARS-CoV-2 analyzes the transmission routes of SARS-CoV-2 to Southern California and explains local community spread within the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
Authors: Jasmine T. Plummer, Ph.D., of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in West Hollywood, California, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.24191)
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What The Study Did: A survey study of Texas police officers examines how common mental illness and mental health care use are in a large urban department.
Authors: Katelyn K. Jetelina, M.P.H., Ph.D., of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health in Dallas, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.19658)
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What The Study Did: Researchers examined whether changes in chain restaurant advertising spending were associated with weight changes among adults across 370 counties in the United States.
Authors: Sara N. Bleich, Ph.D., of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.19519)
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What The Study Did: Changes in internet searches in New York for mental health issues, including anxiety, panic attack, insomnia and depression, during the COVID-19 pandemic were analyzed in this study.
Authors: Stefan Stijelja, B.S., of the Université du Québec à Montréal in Canada, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.3271)
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What The Study Did: This observational study quantified national changes in the volume, type and content of primary care delivered during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially with regard to office-based visits compared with telemedicine encounters.
Authors: G. Caleb Alexander, M.D., M.S., of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.21476)
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What The Study Did: How the 2016 U.S. presidential election was associated with changes in the mental health of Muslim college students was assessed in this study.
Authors: Sara Abelson, M.P.H., of the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Ann Arbor, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.3694)
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What The Study Did: This observational study looked at changes from 2013 to 2018 in the rates of catheter–associated bloodstream and urinary tract infections among critically ill infants and children the United States.
Authors: Heather E. Hsu, M.D., M.P.H., of the Boston University School of Medicine, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.3223)
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What The Study Did: In this randomized clinical trial, daily hydroxychloroquine didn’t prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection among hospital-based health care workers, although the trial was terminated early.
Authors: Ravi K. Amaravadi, M.D., of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.6319)
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What The Study Did: Researchers describe what to their knowledge is the first case of a cerebrospinal fluid leak after nasal testing for COVID-19.
Authors: Jarrett Walsh, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaoto.2020.3579)
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What The Study Did: Extended follow-up of randomized clinical trial participants was used to investigate whether the risk of asthma or recurrent wheeze among young children was changed by avoiding supplementing breastfeeding with cow’s milk formula after birth.
Authors: Mitsuyoshi Urashima, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., of the Jikei University School of Medicine in Tokyo, is the corresponding author.
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What The Study Did: The U.S. Army Public Health COVID-19 Task Force describes the results of an independent investigation of the shore-based USS Theodore Roosevelt outbreak response and 736 sailors in isolation status.
Authors: Gadiel R. Alvarado, D.O., of the Brooke Army Medical Center in Fort Sam Houston, Texas, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.20981)
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What The Study Did: Researchers examined variation among states in how common high blood pressure disorders of pregnancy (including pregnancy-induced hypertension or pre-eclampsia) and eclampsia were among 3.6 million women who had a live birth in 2017.
Authors: Alexander J. Butwick, M.B.B.S., M.S., of the Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.18741)
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What The Study Did: This observational study looked at the association between Medicaid expansion under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and long-term home health care and nursing home use among newly eligible low-income adults and older adults whose eligibility did not change.
Authors: Courtney Harold Van Houtven, Ph.D., of the Durham Veterans Affairs Health Care System in Durham, North Carolina, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.18728)
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What The Study Did: The outcomes associated with deferred compared with expedited aortic valve replacement in patients with severe aortic stenosis during the COVID-19 pandemic are evaluated in this observational study.
Authors: Thomas Pilgrim, M.D. M.Sc., of the University of Bern in Switzerland, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.20402)
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What The Study Did: This single-center study of 77 patients describes the outcomes of patients with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Authors: Stamatios Lerakis, M.D., Ph.D., of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.19801)
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What The Study Did: Researchers evaluated the association between having any prior psychiatric diagnosis and COVID-19- related mortality of hospitalized patients with COVID-19.
Authors: Luming Li, M.D., of the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.23282)
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What The Study Did: This survey study describes the public’s preferences for allocating a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine.
Authors: Sarah E. Gollust, Ph.D., of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health in Minneapolis, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.23020)
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What The Study Did: Individual-level changes in alcohol use and the consequences associated with alcohol use by U.S. adults from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic are examined in this study.
Authors: Michael S. Pollard, Ph.D., of the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.22942)
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What The Study Did: A repeated testing protocol for COVID-19 among patients with cancer was examined in this quality improvement study.
Authors: Manish A. Shah, M.D., of Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.23121)
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What The Study Did: Risk factors associated with developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among first responders deployed to the 2011 Japanese earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster were examined in this observational study.
Authors: Masanori Nagamine, M.D., Ph.D., of the National Defense Medical College Research Institute in Tokorozawa City, Japan, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.18339)
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What The Study Did: This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluates current evidence on the susceptibility to and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 among children and adolescents compared with adults.
Authors: Russell M. Viner, Ph.D., of the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health in London, United Kingdom, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.4573)
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What The Study Did: Electrocardiographic findings a woman in her 50s with COVID-19, fever and shortness of breath, with comorbidities that included morbid obesity and obstructive sleep apnea, are reported in this case series.
Authors: Henry D. Huang, M.D., of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.3818)
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What The Study Did: The likelihood of older adults being excluded in randomized clinical trials for COVID-19 treatment and vaccine interventions is evaluated in this study.
Authors: Sharon K. Inouye, M.D., M.P.H., of Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife, Harvard Medical School in Boston, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.5084)
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About The Patient Page: How parents can help their children adjust sleep schedules, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, is discussed in this Patient Page.
Authors: Mori Stern, M.D., Mary H.Wagner, M.D., and Lindsay A.Thompson, M.D., M.S., of the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, are the authors.
(doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.2784)
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What The Study Did: Outcomes of in-hospital cardiac arrest among patients with COVID-19 are examined in this case series.
Authors: Corey Mayer, D.O., M.B.A., of the William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.4796)
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What The Study Did: Survey data were used to examine the association between sexual orientation (exclusively heterosexual, mostly heterosexual, lesbian, gay or bisexual) and migraine.
Authors: Jason M. Nagata, M.D., M.Sc., of the University of California, San Francisco, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2020.3406)
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What The Study Did: This randomized clinical trial looked at the effect on weight loss and metabolic health of restricting eating to between 12 p.m. and 8 p.m. among overweight and obese individuals.
Authors: Ethan J. Weiss, M.D., of the University of California, San Francisco, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.4153)
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What The Study Did: This analysis of a randomized clinical trial compares the development of celiac disease in infants with gluten introduced into their diet before the age of 6 months compared with after.
Authors: Gideon Lack, M.B., B.Ch., of King’s College London, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.2893)
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What The Study Did: This observational study investigated whether presenting comorbidities in patients with COVID-19 in New York differed by race/ethnicity and whether case fatality rates varied among different ethnic and racial groups while accounting for presenting comorbidities and other risk factors.
Authors: Madhur K. Garg, M.D., and Andrew D. Racine, M.D., Ph.D., of the Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, are the corresponding authors.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.19795)
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What The Study Did: Researchers investigated the association between race and COVID-19 after accounting for age, sex, socioeconomic status and comorbidities.
Authors: L. Silvia Muñoz-Price, M.D., Ph.D., of the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.21892)
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What The Study Did: This observational study examined survival rates and the use of chemotherapy before surgery among women with advanced-stage epithelial ovarian cancer in the United States from 2004 to 2016.
Authors: Alexander Melamed, M.D., M.P.H., of the NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.17517)
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What The Study Did:Researchers examined changes in how common cardiovascular disease was in the highest-income earners compared with the rest of the population in the United States between 1999 and 2016.
Authors: Salma M. Abdalla, M.B.B.S., M.P.H., of the Boston University School of Public Health, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.18150)
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What The Study Did: Researchers evaluated the proportion of patients who completed COVID-19 testing and the proportion of positive cases using language as a surrogate for immigrant status.
Authors: H. Nina Kim, M.D., M.Sc., and Herbert C. Duber, M.D., M.P.H., of the University of Washington in Seattle, are the corresponding authors.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.21213)
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What The Study Did: This observational study used data from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system to examine what risk factors are associated with hospitalization, mechanical ventilation and death among patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Authors: George N. Ioannou, B.M.B.Ch., M.S., of the Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Healthcare System and the University of Washington in Seattle, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.22310)
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What The Study Did: The potential use of red blood cell distribution width for risk stratification of patients with COVID-19 was looked at in this observational study.
Authors: John M. Higgins, M.D., and Jonathan C. T. Carlson, M.D., Ph.D., of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, are the corresponding authors.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.22058)
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What The Study Did: Researchers investigated the effectiveness of using measurements of how pupils react to light as physiologic biomarker to help diagnose sports-related concussion in adolescents.
Authors: Christina L. Master, M.D., of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2020.3466)
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What The Study Did: Researchers investigated whether cannabis use during pregnancy was associated with various childhood outcomes, including cognition, social problems and brain structure.
Authors: Sarah E. Paul, B.A., and Ryan Bogdan, Ph.D., of Washington University in St. Louis, are the corresponding authors.
(doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.2902)
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What The Viewpoint Says: The amplified impact of COVID-19 on vulnerable populations has important implications for individuals at risk of or exploited in human trafficking.
Authors: Jonathan Todres, J.D., of the Georgia State University College of Law in Atlanta, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.3595)
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What The Editorial Says: Authors of this editorial review the evidence for the management of patients with the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) that may apply to patients with severe COVID-19, what has been learned about treatment of these patients, and the gaps in knowledge that remain.
Authors: Carolyn S. Calfee, M.D., M.A.S., of the University of California, San Francisco, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.6047)
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