According to a team of researchers, a German citizen who was vaccinated against COVID-19 217 times had no side effects. This case could be “the person with the highest number of vaccinations in history,” according to findings published in the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
Despite medical recommendations, this 62-year-old man, living in… Magdeburg – in Central Germany – ensured that his immune system functioned properly without showing any problems.
The test subject, whose identity remains secret, made a conscious decision to be vaccinated: the first reports on this case, which appeared in 2022, showed that he had been vaccinated with 90 doses.
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A man has been vaccinated against COVID-19 217 times
Preliminary investigations indicated that the individual may have been involved in an illegal vaccination certificate distribution scheme. However, a public prosecutor in Magdeburg closed the investigation without filing charges.
The study found that 130 doses were administered over a 9-month period. However, he claims to have been vaccinated 217 times with 8 different vaccine formulations. COVID-19including all versions of mRNAover 29 months.
According to Kilian Schober, a virologist at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and co-author of the study, the man showed great interest in participating in various studies evaluating the effects of multiple vaccinations.
There is a scientific hypothesis that suggests that after taking numerous doses, immune cells may lose their effectiveness as they become accustomed to the antigens. However, this was not the case for the subject in question.
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The researchers emphasized the importance of not generalizing
The study showed that they had significantly higher levels of immune cells and antibodies against COVID-19 than a control group of three people who had received the three recommended doses of the vaccine.
Furthermore, no signs of immunodeficiency were observed; His 217th dose already led to an increase in his level of antibodies against the virus.
The person stated that they had no side effects, had never tested positive for COVID-19, and had not shown any symptoms of the disease.
The researchers emphasized the importance of not generalizing these results. “We are clearly not promoting hyper-vaccination,” Schober clarified in a post on X (formerly known as Twitter).
It is “relatively unlikely” that anyone has ever received so many doses in history, Caitjan Gainty, an expert on vaccination history at King's College London who is not involved in the study, told AFP. Spyros Lytras, a virologist at the University of Tokyo, said it was a “weirdly large number of vaccinations.”
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“Whether this is the most vaccinated person in history I cannot know, but he is undoubtedly the most vaccinated person reported so far,” he told AFP. “And I doubt we will see another similar report in the near future,” he added.