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Qualifying For COVID-19 Vaccine Because Of Your BMI Creates Complicated Feelings

Published: March 12, 2021, 11:01 a.m.

Olivia Zayas Ryan thinks of herself as a “relatively healthy person," and wasn’t expecting to get the COVID-19 vaccine until whenever vaccine appointments opened for the general population in New York City, where she lives. That changed, though, once she saw a friend post on Instagram about how she's eligible for the vaccine because her body-mass index qualifies her as obese.