The German patient who was vaccinated 217 times against covid whose case scientists are studying

A 62-year-old German man was vaccinated 217 times against Covid against medical recommendations.

The strange case is documented in the prestigious magazine Lancet Infectious Diseases.

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The patient’s vaccines were purchased and administered privately over a 29-month period.

According to researchers at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, at the moment The man does not appear to have suffered any adverse effects, although experts do not recommend hypervaccination in any case.

Case study

“We learned about his case through articles in the press,” explained Dr. Kilian Schober, from the university’s microbiology department.

“Then we contacted him and invited him to do several tests in Erlangen. He was very interested in doing so.”

The man provided fresh blood and saliva samples.

The researchers also analyzed some of their 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 used these samples to determine how the immune system reacts to the vaccination.”

Evidence from 130 drill holes 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 how to fight the disease.

Doctors do not recommend hypervaccination as a strategy to improve adaptive immunity. (Getty Images).

Hypervaccination

Messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccines work by showing the body’s cells a fragment of the virus’s genetic code.

This way, the immune system recognizes and knows how to fight Covid if it encounters the virus.

Dr. Schober was concerned that overstimulation of the immune system with repeated doses can cause fatigue in certain cells.

But researchers found no evidence of this in the 62-year-old patient.

There was also no sign that he was infected with Covid.

Three 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 three-dose vaccination, along with periodic booster vaccines for vulnerable groups, continues to be 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 weakened immune systems may need extra protection at other times.

Covid vaccines can have side effects.

Source: Elcomercio