Hank: the shingles vaccine will eventually be available to younger people (2022)
prediction · status: unresolved · last event: predicted (2022-09-16) · owner: Hank
In September 2022, explaining why younger people get shingles, Hank guessed that the shingles vaccine would eventually be offered to younger people too.
Told alongside: Hank gets shingles (2022)
About: Zoster vaccine, Shingles
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-09-16 | predicted | Hank guesses the shingles vaccine will eventually be available to younger people. (speculative) | Here's Why Younger People are Getting Shingles 00:03:13 |
What is said about it
5 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
- 2022-09-16 · Here's Why Younger People are Getting Shingles — Hank: There is now a very effective shingles vaccine, separate from the chickenpox vaccine, but it is only given to people over 50 because it is in short supply. — 00:03:13