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Should there be a comma after however at the start of a sentence?

Yes. However, therefore, moreover and similar adverbs take a comma when they open a sentence. When they join two clauses mid-sentence, they take a semicolon before and a comma after.

This comes up on Comma Rules That Matter, where it is answered in the context of the work itself.

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