A 62-year-old German man ignored medical advice and voluntarily received 217 Covid-19 vaccines over a 29-month period, which he bought and had given privately, but the vaccine had no adverse effects, according to researchers at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, citing this bizarre case documented in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, reports the BBC.
“We heard about his case from the newspapers. We contacted him and invited him to Erlangen for various tests. He was very interested,” said Dr Kilian Schober from the university’s microbiology department.
The researchers collected fresh blood and saliva samples and analysed them alongside frozen blood samples stored in previous years.
“We were able to take the blood samples ourselves
when the man received additional vaccinations at his own initiative during the study. We used these samples to determine exactly how the immune system reacts to vaccination,” said Schober.
Evidence for 130 of the 217 injections was collected by the Magdeburg city prosecutor, who launched an investigation on fraud charges, but no criminal charges have been brought so far.
Covid-19 vaccines cannot cause infection, but can teach the body to fight disease by sending the genetic code of the virus to the body’s cells, allowing the immune system to recognise and effectively fight the virus.
Schober was concerned that hyper-stimulating the immune system with repeated doses might have exhausted certain cells in the case of the 62-year-old German.
But the researchers found no evidence of cell fatigue, nor were there any signs of the person’s previous infection with Covid-19.
The researchers caution against interpreting the results as support for hyper-vaccination
as a strategy to improve adaptive immunity, stressing that the 62-year-old man’s test results do not provide a basis for broader conclusions or recommendations to the public.
The researchers confirmed that, based on current research, the most recommended approach is three-dose vaccination, supplemented with routine booster vaccination for vulnerable groups.
“There is no indication that more vaccines are needed,” the university’s website says.
Covid-19 vaccines can have side effects.
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