Most of us didn’t even have the option for more than a couple of boosters (Picture: Reuters)
A patient in Germany paid to get vaccinated against Covid-19 over 200 times.
The man, 62, ‘deliberately and for private reasons received 217 vaccinations against SARS-CoV-2 within a period of 29 months’, a study revealed.
When scientists found out he was this hypervaccinted, they asked if they could carry out tests to see how his body had responded, which he agreed to.
The results have now been published in the Lancet journal, and show that he has not had any apparent ill effects.
Having so many vaccinations is not recommended, but given that he had already done it anyway scientists were interested to see what happened.
The public prosecutor of Magdeburg, Germany, where he lives, collected evidence of him having over 100 jabs in a nine month period for a possible criminal fraud case, later dropped, which was reported in local media.
Scientists didn’t find any evidence of ill effects from his vaccine spree (Picture: Reuters)
After reading the articles, researchers asked the man via the prosecutor if he would consent to having tests, and he agreed
He ‘actively and voluntarily consented to provide medical information and donate blood and saliva,’ the resulting study says.
The man did not report any side effects and there were no abnormalities found between which could be attributed to hypervaccination between November 2019 and October 2023.
Researchers also found that the man had no signs of ever having had Covid-19, ‘as indicated by repeatedly negative SARS-CoV-2 antigen tests, PCRs and nucleocapsid serology’.
They concluded his hundreds of jabs ‘did not lead to adverse events’ and did in fact increase the number of relevant antibodies and T cells.
But they said they could not clarify whether he managed to avoided Covid due to his strict vaccine regimen and added that ‘importantly, we do not endorse hypervaccination as a strategy to enhance adaptive immunity’.
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