A 62-year-old man from Germany has been vaccinated 217 times against Covid, doctors report.
The strange instance is reported in the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases. The shots were purchased and administered in private over a 29-month period.
According to researchers at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, the individual doesn’t seem to have had any negative effects.
They had contacted the man after hearing about him from a newspaper and asked if they could undertake tests to examine his body’s response to the multiple COVID-19 jabs.
They published their findings in the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal this week.
“Our test case was vaccinated with a total of eight different vaccines, including different available mRNA vaccines,” Dr Kilian Schober, from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, said in a statement.
“The observation that no noticeable side effects were triggered in spite of this extraordinary hypervaccination indicates that the drugs have a good degree of tolerability,” he added.
The individual, compared to those in their control group who had gotten three doses of the vaccination, had higher levels of immune cells and antibodies against the coronavirus, the team discovered.
If not, the “hypervaccination” had no negative impact on the man’s immune system or weakened immunity.
As part of an alleged fraud investigation, a public prosecutor had confirmed 130 of the vaccines over a nine-month period; but, according to researchers, no criminal charges were filed against the man.
