MOST VACCINATED PERSON EVER?
The case allowed the researchers an extremely rare chance to study what is known as “hyper-vaccination”.
Some scientists have theorised that after being hit by so many vaccinations, a body’s immune cells would become less effective as they became accustomed to the antigens.
But that was not the case for the German man, the researchers found.
In fact, he had “considerably higher concentrations” of immune cells and antibodies for the COVID-19 virus than a control group of three people who received the recommended three vaccinations, the study said.
His body also showed no sign of fatigue from all those vaccinations – his 217th jab still boosted his number of antibodies against COVID-19, the researchers found.
The man reported that he never had any vaccine-related side effects from any of the 217 jabs. He also never tested positive for COVID-19 and showed no signs of past infection, the researchers said.
But they warned against taking away any wider lessons from the man’s experience.
“It should go without saying that we do not endorse hypervaccination,” Schober wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
Caitjan Gainty, an expert in the history of vaccines at King’s College London not involved in the study, told AFP she had “never come across a historical discussion of someone who received more vaccinations than this”.
It is “relatively unlikely” that anyone has ever had more vaccinations than the man, she added.
Spyros Lytras, a virologist at the University of Tokyo, said it was a “comically large number of vaccinations”.
“Whether this is the most vaccinated person in history, I cannot know, but they are certainly the most vaccinated person reported to date” by some margin, he told AFP.
“And I doubt that we’re going to see another such report any time soon.”
Source: CNA
