Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser jointly issued a request Wednesday for federal support with vaccinating essential federal employees against COVID-19, many of whom live in the greater D.C. area.
Northam, Hogan and Bowser sent a letter to the leaders of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Federal Emergency Management Agency seeking a dedicated allocation of COVID vaccine doses for more than 30,000 regional federal employees identified as critical personnel.
“The District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia simply do not have the resources available to support these priority vaccinations, due to the additional burden on local resources that this mission would require,” the letter says.
The three officials also requested a “federally supported and operated vaccination site” for all essential federal workers, contractors and employees of Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, as well as coordinated communication about vaccines for the approximately 281,000 federal employees who work in the region.
According to the letter, some of the included employees and contractors work for the executive, legislative and judicial branches, the U.S. Postal Service and the Federal Reserve.
Last week, a group of congressional representatives from Virginia, Maryland and D.C., including U.S. Reps. Donald S. Beyer Jr., Gerald E. Connolly and Jennifer Wexton, all of whom represent Northern Virginia districts, wrote to the acting director of the federal Office of Personnel Management. They requested that federal employees be given the option of administrative leave so they can receive a COVID vaccine, having heard that some federal agencies are not allowing employees time off.
Claiming that the Republican Party of Virginia has “held the process hostage,” state Sen. Amanda Chase, R-Chesterfield, a GOP gubernatorial hopeful, has filed suit against the state GOP over its decision to hold a convention in May instead of a primary to select its 2021 candidates for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general.
Chase’s attorney, Tim Anderson of Virginia Beach, filed the lawsuit on Chase’s behalf against the Republican Party of Virginia on Tuesday in Richmond Circuit Court. He is seeking an emergency hearing and a temporary injunction by Feb. 23 — the state deadline for both parties to notify the State Board of Elections of their nomination process plans.
In an email statement, Chase said Tuesday that the GOP “has chosen a method that is illegal under the governor’s current executive orders and is secretly planning to choose the statewide nominees themselves, bypassing the people of Virginia. I will not stand for this.” She declared also that the state party’s plans amount to “socialism,” by allowing only a few people in power to decide on candidates.
Virginia Democrats plan to hold a statewide primary in June allowing voters to choose nominees, but currently Republicans are sticking with hosting an “unassembled” convention — a pandemic-era version of a nominating convention, which is ordinarily held in a building with thousands of delegates. The party hosted so-called “drive-through” conventions last year to choose its nominees for Congress.
The debate over holding a statewide primary vs. a nominating convention is a controversial subject, especially this year. In January, state Republican Party leaders quickly adjourned a remote meeting to reconsider its December vote to host a convention, which could not be held in person without violating Gov. Ralph Northam‘s executive order to limit gatherings to 10 people or less.
Because the party’s State Central Committee has scheduled its next meeting Feb. 27, four days after the state deadline, Chase’s suit argues that the GOP plans to go forward with a convention despite significant opposition. The suit requests that the Richmond Circuit Court declare that the party is allowed only to hold an in-person convention — leading to the inevitable decision that such a gathering would be illegal under Northam’s Executive Order 72 to prevent the spread of the pandemic.
Chase vocally opposes a convention and flirted in December with running for governor as an independent — in part, she argued, because GOP officials could cut her out of the nomination over personal dislike. A self-described “Trump in heels,” Chase has long had disagreements with her party. In 2019, she left the Senate Republican Caucus over its more moderate stances on Medicaid and tax increases, and she also was kicked out of the Chesterfield County GOP after making public statements against the Republican county sheriff.
In late January, Chase was censured by the Virginia State Senate for “failure to uphold her oath of office, misuse of office and conduct unbecoming of a senator” based on several controversies over the past two years, including participation in a rally Jan. 6 at the National Mall, hours before the violent breach of the U.S. Capitol. She is the first Virginia senator censured since 1987, with a vote that included three Republican senators supporting her censure. Chase has sued the Senate in response, claiming the censure is a violation of her civil rights.
The first declared GOP candidate for governor, Chase has raised more money than her competitors, who all joined the race after the November 2020 election. Other vying for this year’s Virginia GOP gubernatorial nomination include state Del. Kirk Cox, former Carlyle Group CEO Glenn A. Youngkin and former New Media Strategies CEO Pete Snyder. Youngkin and Snyder, however, are multimillionaires who could potentially self-fund their campaigns.
The Republican Party of Virginia did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the suit.
Virginia residents 65 and older are now able to register for vaccinations that will be given starting Friday at CVS locations across Virginia as part of an expansion of the federal COVID-19 vaccination program.
CVS will supplement existing vaccination programs by providing 26,000 more shots a week to Virginians, the Virginia Department of Health said in a news release Tuesday. The pharmacy and VDH tried to prioritize eligible Virginians who had already registered with the health department and were on waiting lists, but CVS is not able to do so “due to technological limitations with their national appointment system,” according to the release.
In the meantime, anyone who is 65 or older should register with the CVS system, even if they have already registered with VDH. At your appointment for the first vaccination, an appointment will be made for your second shot, VDH says. Appointments are required.
Dr. Danny Avula, the state’s vaccination coordinator, said Tuesday that the health department tried to figure out how to get people on VDH vaccine waiting lists on the list for CVS appointments, but none of the options worked. Local health departments were notified late Monday to add their pre-registered patients, but not everyone was able to be added, Avula noted.
“Not an ideal rollout, but at the end of the day, we are thankful” for more doses, Avula said. He said other states were also frustrated with the technical limitations of CVS’s site, compounded with only a week’s notification of the pharmacy chain’s vaccine rollout.
The state has received about 120,000 vaccine doses a week the past two weeks, and this will bring the number closer to 150,000 doses.
CVS’s scheduling system has two questions it automatically asks Virginians who register: Are you 65 or older, and did you register with the health department? Pharmacies will check age, but they won’t check whether vaccine recipients are registered with VDH because it would create too much burden on pharmacy employees, Avula added.
As for other people in prioritized groups — including teachers, first responders and people under 65 with health conditions — Avula advised them to register with their local health departments instead of CVS. He said it was the state’s request to limit the pharmacy rollout to people age 65 and older, as they comprise the highest priority group with many people who haven’t gotten vaccinated because of supply shortages.
Although Walgreens and CVS have been administering shots to employees and residents of long-term care facilities since December, this rollout is part of a new phase, in which the federal government is shipping doses to 36 CVS locations across the state, Gov. Ralph Northam announced last week. In the near future, Walmart, Walgreens and Kroger pharmacies will also offer vaccines, Northam added. Avula added that the other pharmacies will start offering vaccines in about three or four weeks, and he said the state will confer with the other partners to see if they can prioritize people who registered with health departments.
“This whole thing — it’s insanely complicated,” Avula said. He asked anyone under 65 to “step aside” and let older Virginians get doses. “This is not a system that allows equitable access,” penalizing people without reliable internet access, he added.
For more information on the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program, see the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention site. To register with CVS, click here.
According to VDH, 1.13 million doses have been administered as of Tuesday, and 10.7% of Virginia’s population has been vaccinated with at least one dose.
Richmond City Council will consider the $325 million sale and redevelopment of the city’s Public Safety Building into a VCU Health medical office tower. The project is proposed by Capital City Partners LLC, a joint venture from two developers who were involved in the failed Navy Hill project.
Mayor Levar Stoney announced Monday that his administration will introduce ordinances and legal documents for the project at the Feb. 8 City Council meeting and request that councilors allow the city to bypass a request for proposals in favor of moving forward quickly with the project.
Capital City Partners — a collaboration between Michael Hallmark of Los Angeles-based Future Cities LLC and Susan Eastridge of Fairfax-based Concord Eastridge Inc. — made an unsolicited offer last May for the aging Public Safety Building, which is on 10th Street near City Hall, part of the property where the $1.5 billion Navy Hill arena-anchored project was proposed in 2019.
Monday’s announcement notes that the purchase price for the 2.92-acre site — negotiated by the city and the developers — is now $3.5 million, up from $3.175 million offered last spring. According to the proposal, there will be no city financing for the new project.
The $325 million mixed-use development would include an office tower with space for VCU Health System administrators and physicians, Class A office space and ground-level retail space, as well as new facilities for The Doorways and Ronald McDonald House Charities, which both provide housing and support for families of hospital patients, and a child care center. According to the mayor’s office, the project is estimated to generate $55.9 million in real estate tax revenue for the city’s general fund over the next 25 years.
In February 2020, City Council killed the long negotiated Navy Hill plan, which had met with widespread controversy due to its proposed public tax funding. About three months later, Hallmark and Eastridge submitted their proposal to buy the Public Safety Building as a site for the office tower, which had been an added incentive offered in conjunction with the Navy Hill project.
“Redeveloping the old Public Safety Building will generate much-needed tax revenue for affordable housing, schools and our neighborhoods, while creating opportunities for minority businesses,” Stoney said in a statement Monday. “My administration proactively worked with City Council to make this long-overdue improvement to the city’s health care infrastructure a win for Richmond.”
The developers, who also are behind the proposed GreenCity project in Henrico County, have pledged to create a $500,000 fund to help offset costs of small businesses to lease office or retail space at the development, as well as funding organizations that support small businesses. The fund also would assist Richmond Public School graduates with scholarships.
Currently the building, built in 1954, houses offices and operations for the city’s Department of Justice Services and the Adult Drug Court, in addition to public works. Maintenance costs about $389,000 a year, and the building has $20.9 million in immediate, deferred repairs, Stoney’s office said. According to documents to be presented to the City Council later Monday, the project would be completed within three and a half years if approved.
The project is expected to be up for a vote at council’s Feb. 22 meeting.
A year after the United States declared a public health emergency in response to the coronavirus, the number of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. surpassed 27 million as of Monday, Feb. 8. Here in Virginia, the number of new cases and deaths declined over the past week, although two highly contagious variant strains of the coronavirus have been identified in the state.
After a rough start, Virginia also is improving its rate of vaccine administration; as of Monday, 1.1 million people have received at least one of the two shots required for full inoculation out of 1.58 million vaccine doses the state has received, a rate of 69.9%, according to the Virginia Department of Health. As of Monday, the state was ranked ninth in the nation for its percentage of doses administered, according to data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed by Becker’s Hospital Review. Virginia gave an average of 36,647 shots per day over the past seven days, VDH reported, and 10.5% of the state’s population have now received at least one shot.
With race and ethnicity information available for only 66.5% of people who have received shots in the state, the vast majority of shots were received by white, non-Hispanic people — 71.4% as of Monday, according to VDH. Women continue to receive about two-thirds of the doses, and the number of recipients by age is spread broadly, with people age 50 to 59 as the top age group.
Gov. Ralph Northamannounced Friday that the South African variant of the virus — considered highly contagious and more resistant to vaccines — has been recorded in Virginia, which is the third state in the country to identify the strain, after South Carolina and Maryland. According to VDH, an adult in Eastern Virginia had the variant form, which was identified by private laboratory Labcorp on Thursday.
Only six cases of the South African variant had been recorded in the nation as of the CDC’s last update Sunday, but the strain has quickly spread in South Africa and other countries. Virginia also has recorded four cases of the United Kingdom virus strain, which is spreading swiftly across the country. According to a new study, the strain is doubling its prevalence in the U.S. every week and a half.
Over the past week, Virginia recorded 23,185 new COVID-19 cases and 346 deaths, at a 10.2% positivity rate, down more than one percentage point from the previous week, according to VDH. The Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association reported 2,285 patients hospitalized with COVID or with tests pending, as of Monday. ICU occupancy was at 51%, including surge beds, and 34% of all ventilators are in use for COVID patients and non-virus patients. The state has now reported 530,825 COVID cases and 6,820 deaths since last March.
Nationally, Democrats prepare to pass President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion relief package — although a target on $1,400 payments per person is now under discussion, with some lawmakers pushing for the cap on eligibility to be lowered to $50,000 per individual or $100,000 per couple, meaning that people who earned more than that amount in 2019 or 2020 would not receive a third stimulus check. The left wing of the party has voiced opposition to the limit, noting it is partly based on pre-pandemic income. There also is a $3,000-per-child benefit under consideration, and parents would receive $1,400 more for each child in the family.
Meanwhile, Johnson & Johnson has applied for emergency approval of its one-shot vaccine from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, which is expected to make a decision in coming weeks. If approved, the vaccine would be the third approved in the U.S. and the only one that requires only one dose. Pfizer Inc. and Moderna’s vaccines require two doses.
As of Feb. 4, many of the state’s health districts have positivity rates around 10%. The state’s highest rates and/or sharpest one-week spikes are in the following districts:
Chesapeake — 20.9%, up from 19.5% on Jan. 28
Portsmouth — 19.9%, up from 19.3%
Hampton — 19.5%, up from 18.0%
Eastern Shore — 16.2%, up from 11.6%
Pittsylvania-Danville — 15.3%, down from 17.9%
Rappahannock (city of Fredericksburg and Caroline, King George, Spotsylvania and Stafford counties) — 15.2%, down from 15.8%
Virginia Beach — 15.9%, down from 16.2%
Norfolk — 14.6%, down from 15.7%
Western Tidewater (cities of Franklin and Suffolk and Isle of Wight and Southampton counties) — 14.3%, down from 14.4%
West Piedmont (Franklin, Henry and Patrick counties and the city of Martinsville) — 13.5%, down from 18.3%
Peninsula (Newport News, Poquoson, Williamsburg, James City and York counties) — 13.0%, down from 15.0%
Crater (Emporia, Hopewell, Petersburg and the counties of Dinwiddie, Greensville, Prince George, Surry and Sussex) — 12.9%, down from 13.3%
Three Rivers (Essex, Gloucester, King and Queen, King William, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, Northumberland and Westmoreland counties) — 12.3%, up from 12.1%
Central Virginia (Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford and Campbell counties and Lynchburg) — 11.8%, down from 15.8%
Piedmont (Amelia, Buckingham, Charlotte, Cumberland, Lunenburg, Nottoway and Prince Edward counties) — 11.8%, down from 13.5%
Loudoun — 11.7%, down from 12.0%
Chesterfield — 11.6%, down from 12.6%
Globally, there are 106.2 million reported COVID-19 cases and 2,318,763 confirmed deaths, as of Feb. 8. The United States, which has the most confirmed cases and deaths worldwide, has seen 27 million confirmed cases so far, with 463,483 deaths attributed to the coronavirus since February 2020.
Gov. Ralph Northam said Friday the highly contagious South African variant of COVID-19 has shown up in a case in Virginia, identified by private laboratory Labcorp on Thursday.
The sample came from an adult in Eastern Virginia, according to the Virginia Department of Health, which said it was “investigating this case and assessing the person’s travel history.” While the South African variant is associated with increased person-to-person transmission, there is no evidence that it causes more severe disease, VDH said in a news release issued Friday.
In recent studies, available vaccines have been shown to be less effective against the South African variant, which has spread quickly across South Africa and other nations, although the U.S. has seen only a few cases so far, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. According to the CDC’s most recent update Thursday, there are only five cases reported in the U.S, in Maryland and South Carolina.
Virginia also has identified four cases of the United Kingdom strain of the coronavirus, which is more contagious than the original virus, too. Northam said during his COVID-19 news conference that “now is not the time to relax” and cautioned Virginians to continue wearing masks and maintaining physical distance.
As expected, the governor also rolled out his plan for in-person K-12 education, noting that students and teachers have had a tough academic year and that disadvantaged students are falling behind academically.
“It needs to start by March 15,” Northam said, adding that he expects all school systems to comply with state guidelines for in-person education by that date, offering families the option to send their students back to school. He said also that school systems must also provide opportunities for in-person learning in summer school, although it will not be mandatory for students, and that teachers will be compensated for extra time spent working. Northam noted that schools will not simply “throw open the doors” on March 15 — only that students will have the option to return to class or continue remote learning at home.
Northam also delivered good news about declining numbers of new cases in recent weeks after seeing spikes after the holidays, as well as progress in vaccinating Virginians more quickly.
Virginia’s rate of administered COVID vaccine doses has improved dramatically in the past two weeks, and the state was ranked 10th in the nation as of Friday, according to data from the CDC analyzed by Becker’s Hospital Review. According to Virginia Department of Health data, which is about a day ahead of the CDC’s information, 67% of all 1.4 million vaccine doses received by the state have been administered.
More than 806,000 people in Virginia — 9.4% of the state’s population — have received at least one dose as of Friday, and 157,507 people are fully vaccinated, VDH reported. Northam said Friday that Virginia is ninth in the nation in percentage of its population vaccinated.
The state reached an average of 40,415 vaccinations per day on Jan. 30, an improvement of more than 10,000 a week earlier. Dr. Danny Avula, the state’s vaccine coordinator, said in an interview with PBS NewsHour this week that the state must administer about 60,000 shots per day to reach herd immunity by early summer, but that the federal government needs to send Virginia more vaccine doses weekly than it currently does.
“We still have a long way to go. I don’t want to sugarcoat that,” Northam said during his Friday update. “I know that everyone – everyone – is feeling impatient. Every state wants more vaccine from the federal government. We can’t make it ourselves.”
This week, the state received 122,750 doses, an uptick of about 18,000 from previous weeks, when the federal government provided an average of 105,000 doses. Nevertheless, demand continues to outstrip supply, Northam said. Avula said he expects the shortfall to continue to at least March, when increased production of approved vaccines and approval of new vaccines by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will begin to make a difference in the commonwealth. At that point, the state will be able to offer more mass vaccination events.
Northam said that next week, the state will open a call center to handle calls about vaccines and for residents to preregister for shots, in addition to online registration.
The federal government also will start shipping more vaccine doses to CVS stores, Northam said, which will be sent to 36 locations across the state, in addition to other vaccination sites as the second phase of the federal pharmacy rollout. Partnerships with Walmart, Walgreens and Kroger pharmacies in Virginia are in the works for the near future, the governor added.
In a proclamation Thursday, Gov. Ralph Northam said he will call the General Assembly back to work next Wednesday for a special session immediately following the end of the 30-day regular session. In effect, the order will expand the 2021 General Assembly session to its typical length of 46 days.
The reason behind the proclamation is a partisan battle over the length of the regular session this year; usually the 30-day short session is extended to 46 days, but Republicans declined to support the extension measure, which requires two-thirds of the vote by the state Senate and House of Delegates.
In an interview with Virginia Business before this year’s session began, House Minority Leader Todd Gilbert, R-Shenandoah, said that an extended session was not necessary because state legislators met for a record 84-day session last fall and had adjusted the state’s budget to reflect the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. “I don’t know how necessary 2½ months of special session was when, frankly, all Democrats did was make life a lot harder on police and a lot easier on criminals in that special session,” Gilbert added, referring to a large slate of policing and civil rights measures voted in by the Democratic majority after a summer of social justice protests.
Northam said he would call a special session after it became clear Republican lawmakers weren’t going to support lengthening the session, which led to limits on the number of bills delegates and senators could file. Friday is crossover day, the deadline for the House and the Senate to send over passed bills to the other body for consideration. Due to COVID-19 concerns, the state Senate has convened at the Science Museum of Virginia, and the House is convening virtually.
“People across our commonwealth are facing tremendous challenges, and they expect their elected officials to deliver results,” Northam said in a statement Thursday. “I look forward to continuing our work together to move Virginia forward.”
According to the Virginia Department of Health, the two regions served by Health Wagon — Lenowisco and Cumberland Plateau health districts — have received 33,425 doses so far out of a total of 1,392,275 doses distributed across the state, but CBS stated that the majority have gone to local hospitals, pharmacies and health departments.
One of Health Wagon Executive Director Teresa Tyson’s main complaints is that her patients often don’t have access to reliable transportation or gas money to get to hospitals or other locations for shots, which is why the clinic uses mobile units that travel to 13 locations in Buchanan, Dickenson, Lee, Russell, Scott and Wise counties. The clinic’s patients also are more likely to have underlying medical issues that can cause worse cases of COVID-19, she says, and the region’s poverty rate is the highest in the state.
“They actually live 10 years less than our counterparts on the Eastern Shore of Virginia,” Tyson said in the news report. “How can you be patient in a pandemic when people are dying?”
Gov. Ralph Northam and Dr. Danny Avula, the state’s vaccine coordinator, said Virginia isn’t receiving enough doses yet to send them to everyone who wants one. “A month or two months from now, as new vaccines come on the scene, we’ll be able to start feeding all of these channels of providers and pharmacies that can get out the vaccine at large scale,” Avula told CBS.
“Right now, we’re getting about 120,000 doses a week, and we need about 350,000,” Northam said in an interview.
The state has received about 100,000 to 110,000 doses a week from the federal government until this week, when the number reached 122,750. Virginia is allocating doses by population — so more vaccine doses are going to more populated locations in Northern Virginia, Hampton Roads and the Richmond area. Tyson says that medical vulnerability should be taken into account as well.
As of Thursday, VDH reports a COVID-19 positivity rate of 11.5% in Lenowisco, which includes Lee, Scott and Wise counties, and 8.6% in Cumberland Plateau, which includes Buchanan, Dickenson, Russell and Tazewell counties. For more information about vaccine availability in these regions, click here.
The University of Virginia Health System is testing an antibody cocktail that so far has blocked 100% of symptomatic COVID-19 cases among people who were exposed to the coronavirus, U.Va. Health announced this week.
New York-based Regeneron Pharmaceuticals produces the treatment, which is being tested at several facilities, and also has proven to be effective for people who develop asymptomatic infections. According to early data, these subjects saw fewer viral antibodies in their systems than without treatment and also saw the infections end faster. Overall symptomatic and asymptomatic infection rates were approximately 50% lower in the patients receiving the cocktail, according to U.Va.
“This is the first treatment shown to prevent COVID-19 after a known exposure, and offers protection for unvaccinated individuals caring for a family member with COVID-19,” Dr. William Petri Jr., one of the study’s leaders and a professor of medicine and vice chair of research at U.Va., said in a statement. “We expect that Regeneron will file for emergency use authorization from the FDA so that this drug can be used outside of the context of a clinical trial.”
In phase 3 trials, the cocktail could next be sent for approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. It’s not considered the same as a vaccine, as the cocktail would not provide permanent immunity, but it appears to be useful for people who were exposed to the virus but have not yet gotten COVID-19, according to Petri.
It’s no Falwell-sized scandal, but interim Liberty University President Jerry Prevo issued an apology Tuesday for a snowball fight that got out of hand on Sunday morning.
“This past Sunday morning as I opened the curtains and looked outside, I saw a Liberty University campus covered in deep snow. Having lived in Alaska for the past 50 years, I own a lifetime of memories of joy spent in outdoor winter fun with friends. Lynchburg hasn’t seen a good snow in over two years, and much of our student body comes from areas of the country that never see snow at all,” starts the apology statement.
“I donned my gloves and coat and headed outside and immediately engaged in some snowball fights with a few students. From that small beginning, I invited them to meet on the front lawn to continue the fun with more students. The student body took to the idea, they showed up in large numbers and had the snowball fight. I stood front and center and led this event.”
The only problem? The crowd wasn’t wearing masks during the super snowball fight, so the event could have been a COVID-19 super-spreader. “I messed up,” Prevo admitted. “We did not think through or communicate the need to wear facial coverings and remain 6 feet apart in compliance with [the] Virginia governor‘s executive orders for the suppression of the spread of COVID-19 or even our own COVID-19 operations plan. And the size of the group was not in compliance either.”
President Jerry Prevo apologized for the breach in COVID-19 protocol.
Prevo apologized for the breach in coronavirus protocol and said that social media photos of the snowball fight — which went viral over the past two days — have been taken down in the event they “undermine a culture of compliance.” He added that the university’s students and staff members will “rededicate ourselves” to following COVID protocols, including physical distancing and wearing masks.
Last year, under former president Jerry Falwell Jr., Liberty ran into criticism regarding COVID, as it was the only Virginia university to welcome back students to campus after spring break in March 2020, during a time when most schools across the country were asking students to shelter in place as the pandemic hit the nation. Falwell resigned last August after a series of controversies and scandals, leaving Prevo as interim president.
With more than 108,000 online students enrolled as of July 2020, in addition to more than 15,000 students on its Lynchburg campus, Liberty is the state’s largest university by enrollment and one of the world’s largest private Christian universities.
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