March 16
I got the shingles shot. I was thinking if I got shingles and hadn’t got the shot I would be really mad at myself because having shingles is sooo bad.
The only evidence I could find of the efficacy of the shot, after a cursory browse through the internet, is a statistic from the AAFP: “The shingles incidence rate was 10.0 per 1,000 person-years among unvaccinated participants and 5.4 per 1,000 person-years among vaccinated participants, yielding an overall vaccine effectiveness level of 48 percent.”
Not so great.