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Covid: Man offered vaccine after error lists him as 6.2cm tall – BBC News
Liam Thorp shares his surprise after the NHS mixes up his height and weight in spectacular fashion.
image copyrightLiam Thorp
image captionLiam Thorp was wrongly classed as morbidly obese according to his height and weight
A man in his 30s with no underlying health conditions was offered a Covid vaccine after an NHS error mistakenly listed him as just 6.2cm in height.
Liam Thorp was told he qualified for the jab because his measurements gave him a body mass index of 28,000.
He told BBC Radio 5 Live: “I’ve put on a few pounds in lockdown but I was surprised to have made it to clinically, morbidly-obese.
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