Hank gets shingles (2022)
story · status: followed over 5 videos (2022–2026) · last event: update (2026-03-20)
In September 2022 Hank had a very painful case of shingles, which soon eased to itching. In March 2026 he had shingles again and, as before, researched the disease to distract himself.
Told alongside: John: shingles may no longer exist within a generation or two because of the vaccine (2026) · Hank: the shingles vaccine will eventually be available to younger people (2022)
About: Shingles
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-09-13 | told | John says Hank is sick with shingles, which is extremely painful and sucks, and he is sorry. | A Million Things at Once 00:00:00 |
| 2022-09-16 | update | Hank is getting over shingles: it was very, very bad, but he feels much better and it now only itches. | Here's Why Younger People are Getting Shingles 00:01:56 |
| 2026-03-13 | update | The description says that an hour after posting, Hank noticed a mild rash on his chest and found he has shingles. | Pain video description |
| 2026-03-17 | update | John says the reason Hank is in so much pain turns out to be that he has shingles again. | Tuberculosis and Hank's Shingles 00:00:58 |
| 2026-03-20 | update | Hank has shingles; when sick he researches his disease until he finds it bizarre and fascinating and lets that distract him, which he has done with shingles before. | I'm Sick Because of the Social Structures of Early Hominins 00:00:00 |
What is said about it
7 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2022-09-16 · Here's Why Younger People are Getting Shingles — Hank: The US now vaccinates almost all children against chickenpox, so far fewer kids get it and in future they will be much less likely to get shingles as adults. — 00:01:56
- 2022-09-16 · Here's Why Younger People are Getting Shingles — Hank says you don't catch shingles: it is, in effect, long chickenpox. (playful) — 00:01:56
- 2022-09-16 · Here's Why Younger People are Getting Shingles — Hank: In the US 95% of adults have had chickenpox and so could get shingles, but only around one in three will. — 00:01:56
- 2022-09-16 · Here's Why Younger People are Getting Shingles — Hank: Shingles rates have to rise before they fall: rates in young people have risen, apparently without affecting older people, for whom shingles is more dangerous. — 00:03:13
- 2026-03-17 · Tuberculosis and Hank's Shingles — John says GSK several years ago had two promising vaccine candidates, for shingles and for tuberculosis, that shared an adjuvant, so it could really pursue only one. — 00:01:27
- 2026-03-17 · Tuberculosis and Hank's Shingles — John says GSK chose shingles though tuberculosis causes more death, because shingles is a bigger problem in rich countries and TB mostly in poor ones, so the shingles market was much bigger. — 00:01:56
- 2026-03-20 · I'm Sick Because of the Social Structures of Early Hominins — Hank says shingles is even weirder than he thought and, unexpectedly, tells us something about the evolution of early hominins. — 00:00:00