'6.2cm-tall man' offered priority Covid vaccine after NHS blunder
by Lucy Campbell from World news | The Guardian on (#5EBB6)
Liam Thorp, whose real height is 6ft 2in, was recorded as having a BMI of 28,000
A 32-year-old man with no underlying health conditions was offered a Covid vaccine early because of a blunder at his GP surgery which recorded him as being 6.2cm tall, giving him an astonishing body mass index (BMI) of 28,000.
The Liverpool Echo's political editor, Liam Thorp, said he was left really confused" after he was offered the jab this week seemingly ahead of the government's rollout plan, and shared the frankly surreal" experience in a Twitter thread which quickly went viral.
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