case study of a hyper-vaccinated individual

[redbird]

Here is a case report on someone in Germany who was vaccinated against covid 217 times. At some point after the public prosecutor decided not to file fraud charges, a team of researchers asked to study him, and he agreed.

Tests of blood and saliva samples found that his adaptive immune responses were larger than in a control group of people who had three doses of the covid vaccine. He reported no side effects from the vaccines, and there's no evidence of breakthrough covid infections. The paper says that they don't know whether the many extra vaccine doses are why he didn't get sick, and "Importantly, we do not endorse hypervaccination as a strategy to enhance adaptive immunity."

If the man in question told anyone why he wanted to be vaccinated so many times, it's not in this paper.

Comments

[ithiliana]

Wow -- that's . . . different. The opposite of an anti-vaxer? A supervaxer?

I've had all the recommended shots (for the 65+ group with additional risk factors, Diabetes 1 in my case), and see that the CDC recommends but does not require a spring vaccine for that group -- I had the fall vaccine, and I'll be going in for the spring one (plus still wearing masks in places like grocery stores, plays, apartment building meetings, etc.).

But I'd sure like to know why!

[otter]

I'm glad that someone decided to study him, as it would be unethical to subject someone to that. An example of "it fell in my lap" for the researchers, I suppose.

[sabotabby]

I mean, that's interesting. Maybe they should increase frequency of shots.

[weofodthignen]

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<user="siderea"> says he was selling "getting vaccinated" as a service to anti-vaxxers, so presumably he was like those people who enable you to cheat on tests by taking them for you. I never thought of that. I thought he must have some exotic fetish.

[gatheringrivers]

Fascinating! There may be others, then, that just haven't been found.

[vass]

But how's his wifi reception?