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The Brazilian doctor offering bogus Covid remedies for social media likes | BBC News

Brazil has been hit hard by Covid, and many people are looking for help. Dr Albert Dickson, an ophthalmologist in Brazil’s north-east region, offers prospective patients “free medical consultations” as well as prescribing “prophylactic measures” against the virus.

The catch? You have to subscribe to his YouTube channel.

“How are you going to be entitled to the consultation? You will subscribe to our channel… You will make a screenshot and send it to my WhatsApp. When you send it, you will start to have access,” he said in a video published on Facebook in March.

“The secret is to send the screenshot.”

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Source: The Brazilian doctor offering bogus Covid remedies for social media likes | BBC News