A German man who deliberately received 217 Covid-19 vaccinations suffered no ill side effects, according to researchers.
The 62-year-old man from Magdeburg in Germany received the 217 doses within a 29-month period.
He received a total of eight different types of vaccine including Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, AstraZeneca and the Pfizer-produced Comirnaty.
Research in the latest Lancet Infectious Diseases bulletin details the case of the “hypervaccinated individual”.
It says that evidence for 130 vaccinations over a nine-month period was collected by the public prosecutor in Magdeburg.
An investigation was opened into the allegation of fraud, but criminal charges were never filed.
Researchers contacted the man via the public prosecutor with a view to researching the “immunological consequences of hypervaccination”.
The man, they said, actively and voluntarily consented to providing medical information and donating blood and saliva.
The man himself had documentation of 134 more, with some overlap, meaning 217 vaccinations could be confirmed b y the researchers.
The man has no signs of a past Covid infection, indicated by repeated Antigen, PCR and Covid blood testing.
The researchers from University of Erlangen-Nuremberg who examined him did report that the man had some elevated antibodies and immune cells.
The paper concludes “that SARS-CoV-2 hypervaccination did not lead to adverse events and increased the quantity of spike-specific antibodies and T cells without having a strong positive or negative effect on the intrinsic quality of adaptive immune responses.
“While we found no signs of SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections in HIM to date, it cannot be clarified whether this is causally related to the hypervaccination regimen.
“Importantly, we do not endorse hypervaccination as a strategy to enhance adaptive immunity.”
