A 62-year-old elderly man living in Magdeburg city of Germany has made a surprising claim. He told that he has received more than 200 doses of corona virus vaccine.
Scientists were shocked after this claim of the person. Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen tracked down the man through newspaper reports and studied his immune response.
Dr. Kilian Schauber of the Institute of Microbiology – Clinical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene said, “We learned about his case through newspaper articles.
We then contacted him and asked him to undergo various tests in Erlangen. He was very interested in doing that.” The press release also said that the German man had received 217 vaccinations over a 29-month period for personal reasons.
Shober further said, “Many blood tests have been done on the man in recent years. They allowed us to assess the results of these analyses.
In some cases, the samples were frozen and we were able to examine it ourselves. Apart from this, when the person was given another vaccination, we also took his blood sample ourselves. We wanted to use these samples to find out how the immune system works after so many vaccinations.
After testing, it was found that there were high numbers of T-effector cells which can protect the body from Covid-19 infection. When the immune systems of the three vaccinated individuals were compared, the 62-year-old had more T-effector cells.
Additionally, the researchers found that these effector cells were not exhausted and were just as effective as cells that had received vaccination in normal numbers.
Katrina Kochhar, author of the study published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, explains that the number of memory cells in our test case was as high as in the control group.
Overall, we found no signal for a weakened immune response; Rather, it was the opposite.