Posted on 03/06/2024 9:17:40 AM PST by Signalman
COVID-19 vaccines have been key to controlling the pandemic, but researchers in Germany report on one man who took the vaccination message to the extreme.
The subject of the research published in Lancet Infectious Diseases is a 62-year-old man from Magdeburg, Germany who claims to have received 217 COVID-19 vaccinations within about 2.5 years. (German prosecutors confirmed he received 130 shots in nine months during an investigation into fraud; ultimately, they did not file criminal charges.)
It's not clear why the man wanted so many vaccinations or how he obtained them. But after reading news reports of the man's story, scientists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) became intrigued and wanted to study how the vaccinations affected his immune system. The man—who told researchers he hadn't experienced side effects from his shots—volunteered to provide blood and saliva samples to the scientists and allowed them to mine his health records so that they could better understand what effect aggressively stimulating the immune system with a COVID-19 vaccine might have. Even during this analysis, the man requested and received an additional two COVID-19 shots, against the advice of the study researchers.
The man’s extreme vaccination history provided a unique opportunity for scientists to see whether hyper-vaccination would positively or negatively affect the immune system's ability to respond to pathogens like viruses. “It was unclear in which direction the 200 vaccinations would go,” says Dr. Kilian Schober, the study's lead author and group leader at the Institute for Clinical Microbiology, Immunology, and Hygiene in Erlangen at FAU. Would these shots enhance his immune response—"like we want to see with multiple vaccinations and booster shots"—or perhaps damage it?
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That’s because that’s a true anti-vaxxer.
A lot of shot shills on this site incorrectly label people as “anti-vaxxers.”
For example, I grew up as a Navy brat, and also traveled extensively as an adult, living and working overseas and visiting many foreign countries. I’m vaxxed out the ying-yang.
But I chose not to take the Covid shot.
I am not an anti-vaxxer.
Rennes Templar wrote: “Two more cases. Many similar reports lately. Just sayin.”
Two more failures to show any reason these were caused by the vaccines.
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