Are taller people more at risk of contracting COVID-19?

  Here is an expert reaction to preprint of a survey on transmission and height in relation to COVID-19 A preprint, an unpublished non peer-reviewed study posted on medRxiv, looked at transmission and height in relation to COVID-19. Prof Kevin McConway, Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, The Open University, said: “This research didn’t use any objective measures of viral spread.  The finding on height, like all the other findings, is based on a survey of 1000 adults of working age in the UK, and another similar survey in the USA. …

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