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Izikiel43yesterday at 9:13 PM1 replyview on HN

How was the study done?

If the vaccine became available in the 90s, and it was given to kids mostly, those people are 40 at most now, so how is the increase in shingles measured? More cases when younger? More older people getting it?

Thinking about it within this context doesn't make much sense.


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modelessyesterday at 10:41 PM

The increase in shingles is in people who weren't vaccinated as kids. People who were vaccinated as kids and never got infected don't get shingles at all AFAIK.

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