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"Study: German Man's Immune System Functions After Receiving 217 Covid Vaccines"

A 62-year-old man from Germany claimed to have received 217 COVID-19 vaccines over 29 months, prompting a study by scientists at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Despite concerns of potential immune system fatigue, the man's immune response was found to be fully functional, with a large number of T effector cells and memory T cells against SARS-CoV-2, as well as effectiveness against other pathogens. The study, published in Lancet Infectious Diseases, suggests that hypervaccination did not weaken the man's immune response, although the generalizability of the findings is not clear.