A 62-year-old German man has been vaccinated 217 times against Covid against medical recommendations.
The strange case is documented in the prestigious magazine The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
The patient’s vaccines were purchased and administered privately over a period of 29 months.
According to researchers at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, at the moment the man does not seem to have suffered any adverse effects, although experts do not recommend hypervaccination in any case.
Case study
“We learned about his case through press articles,” explained Dr. Kilian Schober, from the university’s microbiology department.
“Then we contacted him and invited him to undergo several tests in Erlangen. He was very interested in doing it.”
The man provided fresh blood and saliva samples.
The researchers also analyzed some of his frozen blood samples, which had been stored in recent years.
Dr. Schober said: “We were able to take blood samples ourselves when the man received another vaccine during the study at his own insistence. “We use these samples to determine how the immune system reacts to vaccination.”
Evidence from 130 of the punctures was collected by the Magdeburg city prosecutor, who opened an investigation charging fraud, but no criminal charges were brought.
Covid vaccines cannot cause infection, but they can teach the body to fight the disease.
Hypervaccination
Messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccines work by showing the body’s cells a fragment of the virus’s genetic code.
In this way, the immune system recognizes and knows how to fight Covid if it encounters the virus.
Dr. Schober was concerned that hyperstimulation of the immune system with repeated doses may have fatigued certain cells.
But researchers found no evidence of this in the 62-year-old patient.
There was also no sign that he had been infected with Covid.
3 doses are enough
According to the researchers, “it is important to highlight that we do not support hypervaccination as a strategy to improve adaptive immunity.”
And the results of their tests on the 62-year-old patient were not enough to draw far-reaching conclusions, much less recommendations for the general public.
“Current research indicates that vaccination with three doses, along with periodic booster vaccines for vulnerable groups, remains the preferred approach,” they state on the university website.
“There is no indication that more vaccines are needed.”
The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) says Covid vaccines are given seasonally, but some people with a weakened immune system may need extra protection at other times.
Covid vaccines can have side effects.
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