Re: Religion and Vaccine Arguments
Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2024 12:51 pm
** 06-Mar-2024 World View: Man receives 217 Covid jabs
‘Hypervaccinated’ man reportedly received 217 Covid jabs
without side effects
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Germany man said he had large number of vaccines for ‘private
reasons’, but reports say he was selling vaccine certificates to
people who didn’t want the jab
[107]Kate Connolly in Berlin and agencies
Wed 6 Mar 2024 09.05 ESTFirst published on Tue 5 Mar 2024 20.55 EST
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A German man who voluntarily received 217 coronavirus jabs over 29
months showed “no signs” of having been infected with the virus that
causes Covid-19 and had not suffered from any vaccine-related side
effects, according to a study published in the medical journal Lancet
Infectious Diseases.
The 62-year-old, from Magdeburg, [109]Germany, who doctors described
as “hypervaccinated”, said he had had the large number of vaccines for
“private reasons”, according to the researchers from University of
Erlangen-Nuremberg who examined him.
According to the news magazine Spiegel, the man’s vaccine spree had
sparked a criminal investigation against him for suspected fraud,
after suspicions he had run a scam to sell the vaccine certificates to
people who did not want to get the jab.
The initial reports relating to the study, which gave scant
information, had sparked widespread speculation, with suggestions that
the man was suffering from paranoid hypochondria, that he possibly had
a needle fixation, or he was a doctor who might have been
administering vaccines to patients himself. There were also questions
as to whether he had financed the jabs out of his own pocket, or
received medical authorisation to receive them.
Later reports confirmed the criminal investigation against the man,
who was accused of getting so many doses in order to be able to
collect the stamped and signed vaccination cards, which could then be
forged and sold on to people who did not want to be vaccinated and so
faced extensive restrictions at the height of the pandemic.
A public prosecutor in Magdeburg had opened an investigation into the
fraud allegations but no criminal charges were actually filed,
authorities confirmed to the researchers.
The academics contacted the man after reading about him in a newspaper
report. He accepted their request to study his body’s response to the
multiple jabs.
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“We then contacted him and invited him to undergo various tests in
Erlangen,” Dr Kilian Schober said. “He was very interested in doing
so.”
They vaccinated him for the 217th time for the purpose of the study,
the researchers said.
The research team said it had seen official confirmation for 134 of
the vaccinations, which included eight different vaccines, including
various mRNA-vaccines. They looked at previous blood tests the man had
given over multiple years and also examined blood samples as he went
on to receive further vaccines.
Confirmation of 130 of the vaccines, within a nine-month timeframe,
came from the public prosecutor’s investigation against the man,
Spiegel reported.
“The observation that no noticeable side effects were triggered in
spite of this extraordinary hypervaccination indicates that the drugs
have a good degree of tolerability,” Schober said.
The researchers found that his immune system was fully functional.
Certain immune cells and antibodies against the virus that causes
Covid-19 (Sars-CoV-2) were present in considerably higher levels
compared with people who had received just three vaccines, the team
reported.
“Overall, we did not find any indication for a weaker immune response,
rather the contrary,” said one of the leading study authors Katharina
Kocher.
The reaction of the man’s immune system to other viruses remained
unchanged, further tests showed, proof, the researchers said, that his
immune system had not been damaged by having to respond to so many
vaccinations.
The researchers said that even though further details about the man or
his motives would not be made public, he had effectively served the
common good by demonstrating “how well tolerated the vaccines
generally are”. However, they warned the public against following the
man’s example, saying that excessive vaccinations were not in general
advisable and could cause unpleasant and unnecessary side effects. The
fact that the man – who never contracted the coronavirus – tolerated
so many jabs so well, did not mean that would translate into the rest
of the population reacting in the same way.
Immunologist Prof Dr Andreas Radbruch, president of the European
Federation of the Immunological Associations of Experts (EFIS), who
was not involved in the study, said that hypervaccination would not
increase a person’s protection beyond the point at which their
immunological memory was satiated.
“The vaccine is absorbed by the antibodies before it can trigger an
immune response. Beyond a certain level of concentration of
antibodies, the immune system closes off and no more new antibodies
are made,” he told German media. “Once someone has enough antibodies,
you cannot increase their protection with further vaccinations.”
Germany’s standing commission on vaccination, Stiko, advises that a
person’s basic immunity is reached after three episodes of contact
with a pathogen, such as one vaccine and two infections, or vice
versa. In Germany, those considered at risk and everyone over the
age of 60 is advised to get a top-up coronavirus vaccine every
autumn.
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‘Hypervaccinated’ man reportedly received 217 Covid jabs
without side effects
========================================================
Germany man said he had large number of vaccines for ‘private
reasons’, but reports say he was selling vaccine certificates to
people who didn’t want the jab
[107]Kate Connolly in Berlin and agencies
Wed 6 Mar 2024 09.05 ESTFirst published on Tue 5 Mar 2024 20.55 EST
[108]Share
A German man who voluntarily received 217 coronavirus jabs over 29
months showed “no signs” of having been infected with the virus that
causes Covid-19 and had not suffered from any vaccine-related side
effects, according to a study published in the medical journal Lancet
Infectious Diseases.
The 62-year-old, from Magdeburg, [109]Germany, who doctors described
as “hypervaccinated”, said he had had the large number of vaccines for
“private reasons”, according to the researchers from University of
Erlangen-Nuremberg who examined him.
According to the news magazine Spiegel, the man’s vaccine spree had
sparked a criminal investigation against him for suspected fraud,
after suspicions he had run a scam to sell the vaccine certificates to
people who did not want to get the jab.
The initial reports relating to the study, which gave scant
information, had sparked widespread speculation, with suggestions that
the man was suffering from paranoid hypochondria, that he possibly had
a needle fixation, or he was a doctor who might have been
administering vaccines to patients himself. There were also questions
as to whether he had financed the jabs out of his own pocket, or
received medical authorisation to receive them.
Later reports confirmed the criminal investigation against the man,
who was accused of getting so many doses in order to be able to
collect the stamped and signed vaccination cards, which could then be
forged and sold on to people who did not want to be vaccinated and so
faced extensive restrictions at the height of the pandemic.
A public prosecutor in Magdeburg had opened an investigation into the
fraud allegations but no criminal charges were actually filed,
authorities confirmed to the researchers.
The academics contacted the man after reading about him in a newspaper
report. He accepted their request to study his body’s response to the
multiple jabs.
[110]
In a sceptical era, understand this: vaccines do work - and our
children need them| Devi Sridhar
Read more
“We then contacted him and invited him to undergo various tests in
Erlangen,” Dr Kilian Schober said. “He was very interested in doing
so.”
They vaccinated him for the 217th time for the purpose of the study,
the researchers said.
The research team said it had seen official confirmation for 134 of
the vaccinations, which included eight different vaccines, including
various mRNA-vaccines. They looked at previous blood tests the man had
given over multiple years and also examined blood samples as he went
on to receive further vaccines.
Confirmation of 130 of the vaccines, within a nine-month timeframe,
came from the public prosecutor’s investigation against the man,
Spiegel reported.
“The observation that no noticeable side effects were triggered in
spite of this extraordinary hypervaccination indicates that the drugs
have a good degree of tolerability,” Schober said.
The researchers found that his immune system was fully functional.
Certain immune cells and antibodies against the virus that causes
Covid-19 (Sars-CoV-2) were present in considerably higher levels
compared with people who had received just three vaccines, the team
reported.
“Overall, we did not find any indication for a weaker immune response,
rather the contrary,” said one of the leading study authors Katharina
Kocher.
The reaction of the man’s immune system to other viruses remained
unchanged, further tests showed, proof, the researchers said, that his
immune system had not been damaged by having to respond to so many
vaccinations.
The researchers said that even though further details about the man or
his motives would not be made public, he had effectively served the
common good by demonstrating “how well tolerated the vaccines
generally are”. However, they warned the public against following the
man’s example, saying that excessive vaccinations were not in general
advisable and could cause unpleasant and unnecessary side effects. The
fact that the man – who never contracted the coronavirus – tolerated
so many jabs so well, did not mean that would translate into the rest
of the population reacting in the same way.
Immunologist Prof Dr Andreas Radbruch, president of the European
Federation of the Immunological Associations of Experts (EFIS), who
was not involved in the study, said that hypervaccination would not
increase a person’s protection beyond the point at which their
immunological memory was satiated.
“The vaccine is absorbed by the antibodies before it can trigger an
immune response. Beyond a certain level of concentration of
antibodies, the immune system closes off and no more new antibodies
are made,” he told German media. “Once someone has enough antibodies,
you cannot increase their protection with further vaccinations.”
Germany’s standing commission on vaccination, Stiko, advises that a
person’s basic immunity is reached after three episodes of contact
with a pathogen, such as one vaccine and two infections, or vice
versa. In Germany, those considered at risk and everyone over the
age of 60 is advised to get a top-up coronavirus vaccine every
autumn.
107. https://www.theguardian.com/profile/kateconnolly
108. mailto:?subject=‘Hypervaccinated’ man reportedly received 217
Covid jabs without side
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