The man called for Covid shot because doctors believed he was 6 cm tall

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He’s 6’2 which makes it an easy mistake to make

A man was given priority for the coronavirus vaccine because doctors mistakenly believed he was only six inches tall.

Liam Thorp is the political editor of the Liverpool Echo. But according to his doctor’s notes, he was a man just six inches tall – and a BMI (body mass index) of more than 28,000.

In reality, it would make him look even weirder than any of those Spurs dolls.

Understandably, that also placed him in a fairly high-risk category that urgently needed a coronavirus vaccine.

Thorp explained the confusion in hilarious detail on Twitter.

Thorp wrote, “So I’m not getting a vaccine next week – I felt weird why I was selected earlier than others, so called the GP to check. It turned out that they had my height as 6.2 cm instead of 6 ft 2. , give me a BMI of 28,000. “

Perhaps the funniest part of the story is Thorp’s mother’s reaction. When told about the error, she replied “Well maybe this is the wake-up call you need”.

Perhaps the confusion stemmed from poor handwriting, a trait seemingly common among doctors.

Thorp wrote in a piece for his employer, “I am 32 years old with no underlying health problems, and while I could be described as being on the fat side, I would not have considered myself clinically obese (even after Lockdown).”

BMI is a measure of body weight in combination with height. A BMI of 26/27 is usually classified as overweight, although there are complications in the data because muscle is denser than fat.

Many professional athletes are considered overweight according to BMI, when often that couldn’t be further from the truth. It is more relevant as a measure of larger population scales. For example, BMI can tell you that the Spanish are on average leaner than the Pacific Island population.

However, it is quite surprising that the shell did not spontaneously ignite when seeing someone with a size of 28,000.

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