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German Patient Vaccinated Against Covid 217 Times
By Michelle Roberts, Digital health editor
A 62-year-old man from Germany has, against medical advice, been vac- cinated 217 times against Covid, doctors report. The bizarre case is documented
in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal.
The shots were bought and given privately within the space of 29 months.
The man appears to have suffered no ill effects, researchers from
the University of Erlangen- Nuremberg say.
"We then con- tacted him and invited him to undergo various tests in Erlangen. He was very interested in doing so."
The man provid- ed fresh blood and saliva sam- ples.
The researchers also tested some frozen blood samples of his that had been stored in recent years.
Dr Schober said: "We were able to
take blood sam- ples ourselves when the man received a further vaccination dur- ing the study at his own insis- tence.
"We were able to use these sam- ples to determine exactly how the immune system reacts to the vac- cination."
Evidence for 130 of the jabs was collected by the public prosecutor of the city of Magdeburg, who opened an inves- tigation with the allegation of fraud, but no criminal charges
were brought.
Covid vaccines cannot cause infection but can teach the body how to fight the disease.
Messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccines work by showing the body's cells a bit of genetic code from the virus.
The immune sys- tem should then recognize and know how to fight Covid should they encounter it for real.
Dr Schober wor- ried hyper-stimu-
lating the immune system with repeated doses might have fatigued certain cells.
But the researchers found no evi- dence of this in the 62-year-old.
And there was no sign that he had ever been infect- ed with Covid.
The researchers said: "Importantly, we do not endorse hyper- vaccination as a strategy to enhance adaptive immunity."
And the results of
their tests on the 62-year-old were insufficient for making far-reach- ing conclusions, let alone recom- mendations for the general pub- lic.
"Current research indicates that a three-dose vacci- nation, coupled with regular top- up vaccines for vulnerable groups, remains the favored approach," they say on the uni- versity's website.
"There is no indi- cation that more vaccines are required."
The NHS says Covid vaccines are normally given seasonally but some people with a severely weakened immune system may need addi- tional protection at other times - and it will contact those whose NHS record sug- gests may be eli- gible.
Covid vaccines can have side effects. A com- mononeisa sore arm from the injection.
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