A 62-year-old German man deliberately got 217 Covid-19 vaccine shots in the span of 29 months, according to a new study, going against national vaccine recommendations. That’s an average of one jab every four days. CNN’s Meg Tirrell reports. #CNN #News
A German man has puzzled scientists after he deliberately got more than 200 COVID 19 vaccinations. 217 to be exact, over two and a half years. That’s a shot every four days, roughly. CNN health reporter Meg Tyrrell is here to explain more. This guy sort of became a voluntary science experiment Yeah, of course.
They called this guy a hyper vaccinated individual and researchers sort of found out about him through media reports as he was already more than 200 shots into this self experiment he was doing. And they asked if they could study him. He was actually being investigated by the authorities in Germany for potential fraud.
They suspected maybe he was trying to sell vaccination cards, but no charges were ever filed against him there. Now, this guy is 62 years old, as you said. 217 COVID 19 vaccinations within the span of 29 months. If you look at the pattern of some of these
And we’ve got a bar chart here that shows the dates of some of these shots and these are not even all of them, but if you just look in this one year span, he was getting maybe one or two per month as the beginning of the year was happening
As he gets into January of 20, 22. He got 48 shots within that one month period. Most days of that month he was getting two shots per day, one in each arm. He continued with a large number of shots in February, then dropped down to just six in March.
Of course, scientists are wondering what the effect was on him. First of all, he didn’t report any vaccine related side effects at all, which is sort of crazy to think about when you think about how you feel about getting a COVID shot the next day. Secondly, his immune response
Did show an increase in immune cells like antibodies and T cells, but not necessarily a better or worse immune response, even after more than 200 COVID vaccines. And finally, guys, he never got SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID. But of course, the researchers say they don’t know if that’s
Because of so many vaccines, because of just the first few vaccines or because of his behavior or something else. But this leading to quite an interesting and of one person experiment, guys. Yeah, maybe tough to answer why someone would get 217 COVID vaccinations in two years but walk us through the the saying
Current recommendations on how many COVID 19 vaccines to get Yeah it goes without saying it is not 200. Right now in the United States the general recommendation is one updated each fall similarly to how we get the flu vaccine and we know that only a fraction of people
Are actually getting annual COVID shot at this point. The CDC did also just come out and recommend an additional shot now for people over the age of 65 to increase their immunity. So you’re talking about a couple shots per year against COVID really at the most. This guy
Going way outside of those bounds. But luckily he seems to be okay exponentially, to say the least. Carol, thanks so much for the update on this really odd story. Thanks, Mike.
