Man vaccinated for COVID 217 times reports no side effects: scientists

A German man who intentionally received vaccinated for COVID-19 a whopping 217 instances didn’t report any negative effects from his many jabs, based on researchers finding out probably the “most vaccinated individual in historical past”.

The immune system of the 62-year-old man from the central German metropolis of Magdeburg—who has not been named—continues to be firing on all cylinders, the researchers mentioned in The Lancet Infectious Illnesses journal.

They mentioned the person voluntarily acquired so many photographs in opposition to all medical advice, and warned in opposition to leaping to far-reaching conclusions from this single case.

The person first got here to the eye of the German-led researchers resulting from information studies in 2022, when he had solely acquired 90 jabs.

Media studies on the time mentioned the person was suspected of getting so many doses to gather the finished vaccination playing cards, which may then be cast and offered to individuals who didn’t need to be vaccinated.

A public prosecutor in Magdeburg opened an investigation into allegations of fraud over the case however no criminal charges had been filed, based on the scientific paper revealed earlier this week.

The prosecutor collected proof of 130 vaccinations over 9 months, it added.

However the man claims to have acquired 217 vaccine doses of eight totally different COVID vaccines—together with all mRNA variations—over 29 months.

Kilian Schober, a virologist at Germany’s College of Erlangen-Nuremberg and examine co-author, mentioned in a press release that after they contacted the person, he was “very ” in present process a spread of assessments to look at the impact of so many vaccinations.

Most vaccinated individual ever?

The case allowed the researchers an especially uncommon likelihood to check what is named “hyper-vaccination”.

Some scientists have theorized that after being hit by so many vaccinations, a physique’s immune cells would change into much less efficient as they grew to become accustomed to the antigens.

However that was not the case for the German man, the researchers discovered.

In truth, he had “significantly increased concentrations” of immune cells and antibodies for the COVID virus than a control group of three individuals who acquired the really helpful three vaccinations, the examine mentioned.

His physique additionally confirmed no signal of fatigue from all these vaccinations—his 217th jab nonetheless boosted his variety of antibodies in opposition to COVID, the researchers discovered.

The person reported that he by no means had any vaccine-related negative effects from any of the 217 jabs. He additionally by no means examined optimistic for COVID and confirmed no indicators of previous an infection, the researchers mentioned.

However they warned in opposition to taking away any wider classes from the person’s expertise.

“It ought to go with out saying that we don’t endorse hypervaccination,” Schober wrote on X, previously Twitter.

Caitjan Gainty, an skilled within the historical past of vaccines at King’s School London not concerned within the examine, instructed AFP she had “by no means come throughout a historic dialogue of somebody who acquired extra vaccinations than this”.

It’s “comparatively unlikely” that anybody has ever had extra vaccinations than the person, she added.

Spyros Lytras, a virologist on the College of Tokyo, mentioned it was a “comically massive variety of vaccinations”.

“Whether or not that is probably the most vaccinated individual in historical past, I can’t know, however they’re actually probably the most vaccinated individual reported up to now” by some margin, he instructed AFP.

“And I doubt that we’ll see one other such report any time quickly.”

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