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Include BMI

Open jhinrichsen opened this issue 5 years ago • 1 comments

With recent focus on obesity, please include BMI in self report

jhinrichsen avatar Mar 30 '20 20:03 jhinrichsen

Could be interesting. And I agree with the relevance of BMI in the outcome of a covid infection.

But I do think we need to ask a few questions on the purpose of adding it to Coronastatus specifically.

  • Does BMI differ very much with the township/postcode someone lives in? As opposed to country?
  • Does knowing BMI help map the spread and possible future outbreaks?
  • Will there be a significant lowering of filled out forms due to this being a hard to fill out question (apart from possibly confronting). And thus having a negative NET impact on mapping covid spread?

jelbazi avatar Apr 01 '20 18:04 jelbazi