German man claims he’s been vaccinated against COVID more than 200 times

Article content

A 62-year-old man’s immune system was studied after he claimed to have received 217 COVID vaccine shots.

The man, who was not identified, privately purchased and administered many of the doses between June 2021 and October 2023.

His case was documented in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, in which researchers from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg said the man appears to be in good health and has suffered no negative side effects.

“We learned about his case via newspaper articles,” said Dr. Kilian Schober, who works in the university’s microbiology department.

“We then contacted him and invited him to undergo various tests in Erlangen,” Schober added. “He was very interested in doing so.”

Schober and his team were prompted to study the hyper-vaccinated man to test whether overstimulating the immune system with so many vaccines may have destroyed or depleted immune cells, hindering the body’s ability to fight off illness.

Researchers found no evidence of an impaired immune system or that the man had ever been infected with the coronavirus.

“We were able to take blood samples ourselves when the man received a further vaccination during the study at his own insistence,” Schober said.

RECOMMENDED VIDEO

We apologize, but this video has failed to load.

Try refreshing your browser, or
tap here to see other videos from our team.

Play Video

“We were able to use these samples to determine exactly how the immune system reacts to the vaccination.”

Researchers noted they are not recommending people get so many shots, adding they could not make any conclusions about the safety of taking so much of the vaccine.

“Importantly, we do not endorse hyper-vaccination as a strategy to enhance adaptive immunity.”

They wrote on the university’s website: “Current research indicates that a three-dose vaccination, coupled with regular top-up vaccines for vulnerable groups, remains the favoured approach.”