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Damar Hamlin: Recovering footballer asks doctors who won the game

US National Football League player Damar Hamlin is "beginning to awaken", his doctors said on Thursday.

Hamlin is still on a ventilator in the intensive care unit at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center to assist his breathing.

But he has now been communicating with doctors by writing after waking up.

5 January 2023

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