German patient vaccinated against Covid 217 times - eviltoast
Researchers have written up the unusual case in a medical journal.
  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    8 months ago

    He got the injection seven or eight times per month for over 2 years. Why would he do that? If he’s such a germaphobe and a health enthusiast, you’d think he’d have some common sense that even if he thinks the vaccine is useful, too much of anything is never good. What is his mental glitch? It’s a good thing he got studied and interesting that it’s been determined to have no ill effects after getting the jab 214 more times than advised by CDC.

    • Hubi@feddit.deEnglish
      25·
      8 months ago

      He didn’t do this for health reasons. He solid his vaccination passes to people that didn’t want to get vaccinated themselves. The positive side effect is that we now have data on the effects of the vaccine that wouldn’t have been possible to obtain without unethical human trials.

      • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        8 months ago

        He sold his vax credentials to other people? Don’t they have personal identifying information on them? linked to his name and identity? How can you give your own vaccine card to someone else?

        • loutr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          7·
          8 months ago

          Here in France it was just a qr code in an app, you don’t get a picture of the person when you scan it, so basically sharing a screenshot of the qr code would have been enough to fool most restaurants, bars and such, because nobody bothered to ask for ID.

        • Hubi@feddit.deEnglish
          3·
          8 months ago

          The vax passport is just a small yellow booklet and if you lose yours, you just get a new one from the doctor. You just sign your name and that’s it. It would be pretty trivial to swap pages or maybe just write a different name on the cover.

    • otp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11·
      8 months ago

      Maybe trying to find the upper limits of how many times a person can receive the vaccine! Haha

    • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      8 months ago

      Yea, if nothing else, breaking the skin has a non-zero chance of getting infected with some other random microbastard. Like, you don’t want covid, but you don’t want necrotizing fasciitis either.

    • ylai@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      6·
      8 months ago

      German news outlets reported that there were certain days, when this person received as many as three vaccinations within the same day. https://archive.ph/pqwVK (in German, original pay-walled)

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago

      common sense

      Yeah, this clearly enters into the realm of a mental disorder. There’s no logical thought happening. It’s a compulsion.

  • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    8 months ago

    Well… dons tin foil hat he should be dropping dead any minute now if my calculations are correct.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    8 months ago

    So… did he seek the vaccinations…or… was that some weird fluke of the healthcare system?

    • DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      8 months ago

      A 62-year-old man from Germany has, against medical advice, been vaccinated 217 times against Covid, doctors report.

      …

      The shots were bought and given privately within the space of 29 months.

      To me, this would suggest that he got them himself intentionally.

      • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        8 months ago

        They “opened an investigation with the allegation of fraud, but no criminal charges were brought.” So, yeah. They at least had some reason to think he was doing this intentionally.

        • elvith@feddit.deEnglish
          3·
          8 months ago

          There was another guy from Eastern Europe who got a lot of Covid shots. While the lockdown you sometimes needed a vaccination certificate to do some things and there were several anti-vax people who did want such certificates without getting vaccinated. So they either had to find someone willing to take their shot (and a doctor that didn’t do real identity checks) or they had to get a counterfeit certificate. There were some cases, where people got dozens of shots and sold their certificates.

  • lugal@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    8 months ago

    I don’t know if that’s him but somewhere in Germany you got a bratwurst (is that word known in the English world? It’s a sausage) for vacation and, yes, someone got more than one shot