When I do a SWIFT transfer from Nationwide I just use the Swift code. Forget about IBAN. But it never do it that way now. I use Wise and save a lot of money. I would strongly advise your bro to open a Wise account. When I transfer from Nationwide to my Thai bank account the money is in the account in about 2 seconds at a guaranteed exchange rate.
They are asking you to open it on a PC because the malware or virus is designed to infect a Windows machine. If it was a legitimate document such as PDF or DOC there is no reason why you can't open it on a mobile device.
I think you got the correct advice from the Bangkok hospital surgeon. A CT scan is more appropriate than MRI for bone and hard tissue imaging. And after all it was the CT scan that detected the bone spur.
unless you can show me evidence that health authorities worldwide have told people to stop taking the vaccine then it still is very much the recommended path. In fact the Thai Health minister has just announced that kids should go ahead and get vaccinated next week. That sounds like a policy to me. It has been estimated that omicron is now 90% prevalent in the United States.
Since the booster is exactly the same formulation as the first two shots how is it that the first two shots have worked when antibodies have waned also necessitating a reason to give a booster shot which unsurprisingly also doesn't work. And this was for Delta! In fact the CEO of Pfizer has come out to declare that the first two shots offer practically zero protection and the booster very little if any for omicron. So what's the point of getting a vaccine against omicron?