‘Hypervaccinated’: Doctors study man who’s had 217 COVID-19 vaccines

A German man voluntarily rolled up his sleeve for hundreds of COVID-19 jabs. This is what doctors found when they examined him.

Is there such thing as too many vaccines?

That’s the question German scientists set out to explore recently, as they examined the case of a man who voluntarily received 217 jabs of the COVID-19 vaccine over the course of 29 months.

The 62-year-old man from Magdeburg, Germany, told doctors he had the large number of vaccines — an average of 7.5 doses per month or a shot every four days — for “private reasons,” researchers from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, who examined him, reported in their study.

While the man definitely exceeded vaccine recommendations, he also became a walking experiment for how the immune system reacts when it is frequently vaccinated against the same pathogen.

This “hypervaccination” did not result in any adverse health effects, the study published Monday in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases found, but it also did not significantly worsen or improve his immune response.

According to the study, the man self-reported 83 of the jabs, while the other 134 were confirmed by a prosecutor and through vaccination documentation in the country. The vaccinations were received between June 2021 and November 2023.

The researchers contacted the man after media in Germany reported that he was accused of getting so many vaccinations in an attempt to collect stamped and signed vaccination cards to forge them and sell them to people who did not want to get the vaccination, but wanted to skirt Germany’s restrictions for unvaccinated people.

An investigation was opened into the case, but no criminal charges were ever filed.