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Italy dentist with fake silicone arm gets vaccine – for real

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ROME (AP) β€” An Italian dentist who presented a fake arm for a COVID-19 vaccine says he has since gotten a shot and that the vaccine β€œis the best weapon we have against this terrible disease.” Dr. Guido Russo faces possible criminal fraud charges for having worn a silicone arm made to a vaccine hub in the northern city of Biella. Italy has required doctors and nurses to be vaccinated since earlier this year. Russo insisted during a Wednesday night appearance on Italian talk show La7 that he wasn’t trying to dupe anyone but to protest vaccine mandates. The dentist said he received a vaccine dose the next day β€œbecause the system obliged me to.” 

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