"The Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department are seeing a rising number of promotions of allegedly bogus treatments and cures for COVID-19, which they charge are in certain cases pushed directly by doctors and other licensed health care professionals.

The FTC and FDA this month sent a new batch of warning letters to companies and individuals it accused of making "unsubstantiated" claims about products and therapies to treat the coronavirus.

In Michigan, prosecutors have charged Dr. Charles Mok with health care fraud after he allegedly sold patients a Vitamin C IV therapy that they say he claimed could protect the body from the coronavirus.

San Diego Dr. Jennings Staley was also charged with mail fraud last month after allegedly offering a nearly $4,000 "family package" to treat COVID-19 that included access to telemedicine, hydroxychloroquine, Xanax and even Viagra."

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