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Sunrise hospital prepares for COVID in Las Vegas on Wednesday, March 11, 2020. (Daniel Clark/The Nevada Independent).

A Las Vegas festival promised ways to cheat death. Two attendees left fighting for their lives.

The investigation comes as peptides grow in popularity, thanks in part to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s promotion of the amino acid chains as a way to fight aging and chronic disease.

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