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(AP) Parents who send their children to private schools in California are much more likely to opt out of immunizations than their public school counterparts, an Associated Press analysis has found, and not even the recent re-emergence of whooping cough has halted the downward trajectory of vaccinations among these students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state surveys all schools with at least 10 kindergartners to determine how many have all the recommended immunizations. The AP analyzed that data and found the percentage of children in private schools who forego some or all vaccinations is more than two times greater than in public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>“Have you ever seen a child cough themselves to death? 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Gov. Jerry Brown has until the end of September to sign or veto it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Assemblyman Richard Pan, a pediatrician, who sponsored the bill, said he believes private school parents are more apt to mistakenly believe that the vaccinations themselves could be more dangerous than the diseases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In private school, these are people who have money, who are upper middle-class, and they are going on the Internet and seeing information and misinformation,” said Pan, D-Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increasing immunization rates for this population is critical to controlling the outbreak of diseases, he said. “Have you ever seen a child cough themselves to death? 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Several major studies have discredited that idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents are allowed to forego vaccines for philosophical reasons in California and 19 other states. Of those, only Washington requires parents to consult with a physician. And, in California, there’s no difference between private and public schools when it comes to what’s required for parents to opt out–they simply sign a document. The state recommends that kindergarteners receive five vaccine progressions, including protections against Polio, Hepatitis B and Measles\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politicians and public health experts across the nation are focusing more attention on childhood immunizations, driven by a re-emergence of diseases like whooping cough. The U.S. is in the midst of what could be its worst year for that disease in more than five decades, with nearly 25,000 cases and 13 deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After whooping cough reached epidemic levels in California in 2010, the state took action, embarking on a public information campaign and increasing the availability of vaccines. A law was passed requiring booster shots for older students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the opt-out rate continued climbing in private schools. It’s more than doubled since 2004, to 2,228 kindergartners in last year’s state survey. While the overall rate of full immunization among kindergarteners hovers around 91 percent, places where the opt-out rate is greater could pose a risk for outbreak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2008, East Bay Waldorf School in El Sobrante closed temporarily after whooping cough sickened more than a dozen students, eight of them kindergartners. 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Yet park officials did not warn visitors until after the disease showed up in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_74818\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/Yosemite1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74818\" title=\"Yosemite\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/Yosemite1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yosemite (Jame Change/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a 2010 \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/414390-yose-hcps-risk-assessment-tm-lodge.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">risk assessment document\u003c/a>, state inspectors explicitly asked Yosemite officials to educate those staying in the tent cabins linked to the hantavirus cases about the fatal disease. 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Charles Higgins, who has been director of the public health office for the National Park Service for eight years, said he is not aware of any effort prior to this summer’s outbreak to warn tent cabin renters about the disease. He said the risk of disease transmission was thought to be low and there was potential for guests to tune out an overabundance of warning messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s always a dilemma because people have message fatigue,” Higgins said. “Their eyes glaze over, they quit paying attention to messaging. It’s a little bit of an art form on when to (issue warnings) and how to approach it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yosemite park ranger Kristen Kosick said Yosemite staff were trained about the risks of hantavirus and how to avoid transmission. “There’d been no outreach to visitors but there had been to staff,” Kosick said. “It’s a general virus people should be aware of if they’re in Western states and outdoors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Training on hantavirus is given to Yosemite employees in the spring and throughout the year, said Kari Cobb, a park ranger. She said education on the disease is mandatory for employees who open up closed buildings after each year’s thaw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park authorities announced this week that they notified 1,700 people who were possibly exposed to the mouse-spread disease after staying in Curry Village tent cabins. Two people who stayed in the cabins have been reported dead. One other fell ill with a respiratory disease, and there is a possible fourth case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists have found that the risk for the disease is concentrated in buildings within California’s national forests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giorgio Cosentino, an East Bay microbiologist, said one of the deceased 2012 hantavirus victims is a physician and a family friend. He said even though the risk of hantavirus transmission is low, the park should have warned visitors that it existed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you can’t get rid of the rodent problem completely and you can’t get rid of the virus completely, the safety net includes educating visitors so if they do become ill, they can get to a hospital sooner,” Cosentino said. “That still doesn’t guarantee that they’ll live, but chances of survival are better if you get to a hospital sooner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rare but deadly disease is spread by white-bellied deer mice and most readily caught by inhaling mouse feces or urine dust inside of buildings. Symptoms begin one to six weeks after exposure and include fever, headache, muscle aches and, later, difficulty breathing. The disease kills more than a third of those infected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 1993, 60 cases have been reported in California, including 2000 and 2010 cases at Yosemite, and 587 in the U.S., according to the California Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Higgins said his office, in Washington, D.C., has deployed several scientists to study what gave rise to the cluster of hantavirus cases at Yosemite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are opportunities to contribute to the science, to make the effort to understand as deeply possible what the risk factors were that were so different and in the effort help everyone refine their (prevention) strategies,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vicki Kramer, chief of the state vector-borne disease section of the Department of Public Health, said scientists have worked closely with Yosemite for three years to examine rodent-, tick- and flea-spread diseases. The park has trapped and tested deer mice to monitor the hantavirus problem and urged authorities to educate visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is federal land,” Kramer said. “Certainly we can make recommendations, but it’s up to Yosemite on what further steps to take.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, a 54-year-old San Mateo woman reported she became ill from hantavirus after she stayed in a Yosemite tent cabin. She recovered after three days in a hospital. According to a state summary of the case, she reported seeing one or two mice in the cabin and swept the room with the broom that was provided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the 2010 Yosemite case, state Department of Public Health scientists \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/vbds/Documents/VBDSAnnualReport10.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">examined the Tuolumne Meadows \u003c/a>area and found rodent hiding places, such as stacked firewood, and deficiencies that would allow rodent access to cabins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In addition to removal/correction of these factors, (state scientists) recommended providing staff and guests with information and supplies to safely clean and decontaminate cabins,” the 2010 report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reviews by state vector-borne disease scientists show that hantavirus\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>infection, before the Curry Village cases, has tended to be isolated and spread out among rural counties such as Nevada, Mono and Inyo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kosick, the Yosemite ranger, said park staff and concessioners were given a 12-page directive that details warning signs of the disease, precautionary measures to prevent infection and protective gear to wear. Kosick said park staff are now handing pamphlets to visitors informing them about hantavirus and expect to continue doing so indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Risk for the disease and prevalence in rodents is routinely monitored in California’s national forests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Department of Public Health scientists \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18256445\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published a 2008 study\u003c/a> showing that 20 percent of the deer mice in U.S. Forest Service areas tested positive for the virus, higher than the statewide rate of 12 percent of deer mice. They also concluded that nearly all of the buildings they examined showed signs of rodent access or infestation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodent testing in the Tuolumne Meadows area of Yosemite in a separate 2008 review showed that 24 percent – about twice the statewide average – of deer mice tested positive for hantavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study of U.S. Forest Service areas also showed that the disease tends to impact workers, who are often the first people inside buildings inhabited by mice after a snowy winter. In California, those workers comprised 27 percent of the hantavirus cases reported through 2008 and included a camp counselor, ranch hand, sanitation worker and U.S. Forest Service employee.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>By Christina Jewett, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/calif-scientists-calls-warn-yosemite-visitors-virus-went-unheeded-17784\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California public health scientists have twice recommended in the past five years that Yosemite National Park authorities educate visitors about hantavirus, a rare disease that is linked to the deaths of two park visitors, one illness and a possible fourth this summer. Yet park officials did not warn visitors until after the disease showed up in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_74818\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/Yosemite1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74818\" title=\"Yosemite\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/Yosemite1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yosemite (Jame Change/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a 2010 \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/414390-yose-hcps-risk-assessment-tm-lodge.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">risk assessment document\u003c/a>, state inspectors explicitly asked Yosemite officials to educate those staying in the tent cabins linked to the hantavirus cases about the fatal disease. The risk assessment was performed after a 54-year-old park visitor fell ill with hantavirus in 2010 after staying in the type of tent cabin inhabited by the 2012 victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Provide each cabin with information on (hantavirus),” the 2010 risk assessment recommended. “Together with the bear safety guidance, guests should be advised to minimize contact with rodents and to report signs of rodent intrusion (e.g., droppings, chewed items) to Tuolumne Meadows Lodge management.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2007, state vector-borne disease sector scientists \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/vbds/Documents/VBDSAnnualReport07.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recommended that Yosemite\u003c/a> “minimize risk to staff and visitors through an active prevention program that includes the following elements: education … and active rodent removal within buildings and developed areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Capt. Charles Higgins, who has been director of the public health office for the National Park Service for eight years, said he is not aware of any effort prior to this summer’s outbreak to warn tent cabin renters about the disease. He said the risk of disease transmission was thought to be low and there was potential for guests to tune out an overabundance of warning messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s always a dilemma because people have message fatigue,” Higgins said. “Their eyes glaze over, they quit paying attention to messaging. It’s a little bit of an art form on when to (issue warnings) and how to approach it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yosemite park ranger Kristen Kosick said Yosemite staff were trained about the risks of hantavirus and how to avoid transmission. “There’d been no outreach to visitors but there had been to staff,” Kosick said. “It’s a general virus people should be aware of if they’re in Western states and outdoors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Training on hantavirus is given to Yosemite employees in the spring and throughout the year, said Kari Cobb, a park ranger. She said education on the disease is mandatory for employees who open up closed buildings after each year’s thaw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park authorities announced this week that they notified 1,700 people who were possibly exposed to the mouse-spread disease after staying in Curry Village tent cabins. Two people who stayed in the cabins have been reported dead. One other fell ill with a respiratory disease, and there is a possible fourth case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists have found that the risk for the disease is concentrated in buildings within California’s national forests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giorgio Cosentino, an East Bay microbiologist, said one of the deceased 2012 hantavirus victims is a physician and a family friend. He said even though the risk of hantavirus transmission is low, the park should have warned visitors that it existed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you can’t get rid of the rodent problem completely and you can’t get rid of the virus completely, the safety net includes educating visitors so if they do become ill, they can get to a hospital sooner,” Cosentino said. “That still doesn’t guarantee that they’ll live, but chances of survival are better if you get to a hospital sooner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rare but deadly disease is spread by white-bellied deer mice and most readily caught by inhaling mouse feces or urine dust inside of buildings. Symptoms begin one to six weeks after exposure and include fever, headache, muscle aches and, later, difficulty breathing. The disease kills more than a third of those infected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 1993, 60 cases have been reported in California, including 2000 and 2010 cases at Yosemite, and 587 in the U.S., according to the California Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Higgins said his office, in Washington, D.C., has deployed several scientists to study what gave rise to the cluster of hantavirus cases at Yosemite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are opportunities to contribute to the science, to make the effort to understand as deeply possible what the risk factors were that were so different and in the effort help everyone refine their (prevention) strategies,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vicki Kramer, chief of the state vector-borne disease section of the Department of Public Health, said scientists have worked closely with Yosemite for three years to examine rodent-, tick- and flea-spread diseases. The park has trapped and tested deer mice to monitor the hantavirus problem and urged authorities to educate visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is federal land,” Kramer said. “Certainly we can make recommendations, but it’s up to Yosemite on what further steps to take.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, a 54-year-old San Mateo woman reported she became ill from hantavirus after she stayed in a Yosemite tent cabin. She recovered after three days in a hospital. According to a state summary of the case, she reported seeing one or two mice in the cabin and swept the room with the broom that was provided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the 2010 Yosemite case, state Department of Public Health scientists \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/vbds/Documents/VBDSAnnualReport10.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">examined the Tuolumne Meadows \u003c/a>area and found rodent hiding places, such as stacked firewood, and deficiencies that would allow rodent access to cabins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In addition to removal/correction of these factors, (state scientists) recommended providing staff and guests with information and supplies to safely clean and decontaminate cabins,” the 2010 report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reviews by state vector-borne disease scientists show that hantavirus\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>infection, before the Curry Village cases, has tended to be isolated and spread out among rural counties such as Nevada, Mono and Inyo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kosick, the Yosemite ranger, said park staff and concessioners were given a 12-page directive that details warning signs of the disease, precautionary measures to prevent infection and protective gear to wear. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>by \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/profiles/aaron-glantz/\" rel=\"author\">Aaron Glantz\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/profiles/shane-shifflett/\" rel=\"author\">Shane Shifflett\u003c/a>, The Bay Citizen\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re a Northern California veteran who has waited a year for a decision on a war-related disability claim, you might consider a move to South Dakota – where the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs typically responds in less than half the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_74697\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 242px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/VeteranMap-Adam_131.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-74697\" title=\"VeteranMap-Adam_13\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/VeteranMap-Adam_131-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"161\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam Fields said he survived multiple vehicle rollovers and sustained three concussions in Iraq. (Michael Short/The Bay Citizen)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Returning home from Afghanistan to New York, Los Angeles, Chicago or Atlanta? Veterans who live in Lincoln, Neb., and Fargo, N.D., get their benefits faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The geographic inequity of VA wait times is fully detailed for the first time in an analysis by The Bay Citizen and its parent organization, the Center for Investigative Reporting. Simply put: Veterans in sparsely populated states often encounter quick resolution of their compensation claims for problems ranging from back injuries to post-traumatic stress disorder while those in metropolitan areas languish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, veterans who file claims with any of the VA’s three regional offices – in Oakland, Los Angeles and San Diego – wait more than nine months on average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a slap in the face,” said Adam Fields, a former Marine from Modesto, who has been waiting since November 2010 for a ruling on his claim for benefits for traumatic brain injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his two tours in Iraq, Fields said he survived multiple vehicle rollovers and sustained three concussions, which have contributed to persistent short-term memory loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes I get in the car, and I forget where I’m going,” said Fields, who supports his wife and 5-year-old son by driving a scrap metal truck in Stockton, two hours from the closest VA hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the VA approved my claim, I could afford to take time off to get regular treatment,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/veterans/interactive/map-disabled-vets-stuck-backlog-limbo/\">\u003cstrong>Map: Disabled vets stuck in backlog limbo\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Bay Citizen’s city-by-city data populates an online interactive map that will automatically update weekly, documenting in real time the progress of recent VA promises to improve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, change has headed in the wrong direction, despite increased media and political scrutiny. Nationwide, the VA took an average of more than eight months to process a claim in June – about 50 percent longer than the year before. Veterans in New York and North Texas waited the longest, at more than a year on average. Those who appeal a denied claim wait 3½ years for an answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why the dramatic differences? A VA spokesman did not respond to numerous email and telephone inquiries seeking an explanation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delays have increased despite a new $300 million computer system and 3,300 claims processors hired since 2010 – 765 of them for additional positions. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has pledged to eliminate the claims backlog by 2015, but VA data shows the number of veterans waiting for a decision is growing – to more than 907,000 as of July 30, with 832,000 of them waiting for disability or survivor benefits, while thousands more seek a pension or GI Bill education benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To date, the computer system has been launched at just four of the VA’s regional offices, none of them in California. The vast majority of claims still are in paper file folders, which must be physically passed from one claims representative to another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have ever walked into one of our regional offices, you would see stacks and stacks of paper,” Allison Hickey, the agency’s undersecretary for benefits, told reporters July 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2015, Hickey said, all 58 offices will be computerized. In the meantime, new claims are arriving more quickly than the backlog is being cleared, so without dramatic improvement, disabled veterans will face even longer wait times in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the current rate, for example, it would take the VA three years to resolve every disability claim pending in San Diego – the office with the worst combination of backlog and clearance rate in June – if not a single additional claim were filed. In July, Los Angeles stepped into that worst overall slot.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>In California, veterans who file claims with any of the VA’s three regional offices – in Oakland, Los Angeles and San Diego – wait more than nine months on average.\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That scenario won’t occur. In 2011, 1.3 million veterans filed claims for benefits, according to VA data, a combination of troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and aging Vietnam veterans, many with new claims based on illnesses the government now acknowledges stem from Agent Orange exposure. Since 2010, the agency has seen the number of new claims filed annually increase by 48 percent, while the number of claims representatives has increased by 5 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Improvements in battlefield medicine mean Iraq and Afghanistan veterans are more likely to survive multiple deployments, the VA said in a statement, and as a result, veterans “are returning with triple the medical issues of previous generations, driving the complexity of these claims and their associated workload to an all-time high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veterans’ advocates say that makes the growing VA delays even more disturbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing people break and snap like we’ve never seen before,” said Shad Meshad, a Vietnam veteran and former combat medic who heads up the Los Angeles-based National Veterans Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When soldiers come home from two, three or four tours with post traumatic stress disorder and hit these kinds of walls, they can get frustrated and just give up,” Meshad said. Last May, a federal appeals court in San Francisco found 18 veterans commit suicide every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Identifying the root of the delays is complicated by political finger-pointing. Democrats and many veterans’ advocates argue that the VA failed to prepare for an onslaught of wounded veterans after the Bush administration began the war in Iraq in 2003. Republicans counter that the backlog of disability claims has exploded under President Barack Obama and has continued to worsen in recent months, despite additional scrutiny from the media and members of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Republicans, including U.S. Rep. 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Nationwide, the VA took an average of more than eight months to process a claim in June – about 50 percent longer than the year before. Veterans in New York and North Texas waited the longest, at more than a year on average. Those who appeal a denied claim wait 3½ years for an answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why the dramatic differences? 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