A “hyper-vaccinated” German man who reportedly received 217 Covid jabs over 29 months showed “no signs” he had ever been infected with the virus that causes Covid-19 and had reported no vaccine-related side effects, according to a study published in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases.
The 62-year-old from Magdeburg, Germany, said he had the large number of vaccines for “private reasons,” according to researchers from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
The academics heard about the man from a newspaper report and asked if they could study his body’s response to the multiple injections.
“We then contacted him and invited him to undergo several tests in Erlangen,” said Dr. Kilian Schober. “He was very interested in it.”
The research team said it had seen official confirmation for 134 of the vaccinations, including eight different vaccines. They looked at previous blood tests the man had given and also examined blood samples as he received further vaccines.
“The observation that no noticeable side effects were caused despite this extraordinary hypervaccination indicates that the drugs have a good degree of tolerability,” Schober said.
The researchers found that his immune system was fully functional.
Certain immune cells and antibodies against the virus that causes Covid-19 (Sars-CoV-2) were present at significantly higher levels compared to people who had received just three vaccines, the team reported.
“Overall, we did not find any indication of a weaker immune response, on the contrary,” says Katharina Kocher, one of the leading authors of the study.