Helio Angotti Neto, chief of the Health Ministry's Science, Technology, Innovation and Strategic Inputs department attends a news conference in Brasilia, Brazil June 27, 2020. Carolina Antunes/Brazilian Presidency via REUTERS
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, addressing the nation last month in a social media video, touted the latest in a string of unconventional drugs he says can ease the country's COVID-19 crisis.
Bolsonaro - a vaccine skeptic and promoter of discredited treatments such as hydroxychloroquine - said this new drug, Proxalutamide, would "soon be available to all Brazil." He invited a little-known Health Ministry official, Helio Angotti, to expand on its promise.
