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We investigate whether the $4.4sigma$ tension on $H_0$ between SH$_{0}$ES 2019 and Planck 2018 can be alleviated by a variation of Newtons constant $G_N$ between the early and the late Universe. This changes the Hubble rate before recombination, similarly to adding $Delta N_{rm eff}$ extra relativistic degrees of freedom. We implement a varying $G_N$ in a scalar-tensor theory of gravity, with a non-minimal coupling $(M^2+beta phi^2)R$. If the scalar $phi$ starts in the radiation era at an initial value $phi_I sim 0.5~M_p$ and with $beta<0$, a dynamical transition occurs naturally around the epoch of matter-radiation equality and the field evolves towards zero at late times. As a consequence, the $H_0$ tension between SH$_{0}$ES (2019) and Planck 2018+BAO slightly decreases, as in $Delta N_{rm eff}$ models, to the 3.8$sigma$ level. We then perform a fit to a combined Planck, BAO and supernovae (SH$_0$ES and Pantheon) dataset. When including local constraints on Post-Newtonian (PN) parameters, we find $H_0=69.08_{-0.71}^{+0.6}~text{km/s/Mpc}$ and a marginal improvement of $Deltachi^2simeq-3.2$ compared to $Lambda$CDM, at the cost of 2 extra parameters. In order to take into account scenarios where local constraints could be evaded, we also perform a fit without PN constraints and find $H_0=69.65_{-0.78}^{+0.8}~text{km/s/Mpc}$ and a more significant improvement $Deltachi^2=-5.4$ with 2 extra parameters. For comparison, we find that the $Delta N_{rm eff}$ model gives $H_0=70.08_{-0.95}^{+0.91}~text{km/s/Mpc}$ and $Deltachi^2=-3.4$ at the cost of one extra parameter, which disfavors the $Lambda$CDM limit just above 2$sigma$, since $Delta N_{rm eff}=0.34_{-0.16}^{+0.15}$. Overall, our varying $G_N$ model performs similarly to the $Delta N_{rm eff}$ model in respect to the $H_0$ tension, if a physical mechanism to remove PN constraints can be implemented.
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