Over 15 million multitude in the UK have had their first COVID-19 vaccine . Starting with the aged and frontline care workers , the UK authorities is now range out the vaccines to further at - risk groups , and in doing so they ’re start to offer them to more vulnerable people . One group admit in this is people with higher body mountain index ( BMI ) , due to high risk of serious illness .
JournalistLiam Thorpeof the Liverpool Echo was surprised to see that he had been offered a vaccine appointment , given that he ’s intelligent and far too young to be offered the jab yet .
" Obviously I ’m not going to turn it down , " hewrote on Twitter . " No one should – but I am really confused why I would be offered at this stage when many more vulnerable or at - risk group have n’t been . "
A daytime later , still odd as to why he should get a jab so ahead of time , he rang up his doctor to corroborate . At which point he discovered it was quite an amusing mixup . His phonograph record had him as being 6.2 cm ( 2.4 inches ) rather than 6 foot 2 inch ( 187 centimeters ) , giving him an alarming BMI .
" I signify I ’ve put on a few pounds in lockdown but not that many , " Thorpefollowed up . " When I enjoin my mum I had been classed in the clinically obese category , she sound out ' well perhaps this is the wake - up call you need ' . "
Others suggest that he should have kept it tranquil , crouched down a bit and assay his luck , or else slithered in like a snake and ask " Please , my vaccine , I ’m so forgetful " . Some ( OK , me ) questioned why the doctor had n’t been in touch with vexation earlier , given they had him down as a 6 - centimeters - tall man spread over a encompassing enough area to give him the BMI of a tank .
To this , he replied they were intelligibly " just happy to lease me live my 6.2 cm 17.5 stone best sprightliness " .
Thorpe add that though he did n’t get his vaccine , he felt like he should n’t have jumped the queue anyway , and was proud of to have a sport story to secern about it , adding , " I recollect they would have cotton on when a morbidly corpulent pancake did n’t slide in . "
