The article says there is a vaccine for shingles but that it is expensive.
I didn’t realize how common shingles was until a thread on FR some months ago. I remember having chicken pox as a child and did not want an encore.
Went to Krogers pharmacy and got in the ‘waiting line’.
At that time the vaccine was in short supply.
It was a month or so before they called me.
The vaccine comes in refrigerated and has to be administered within a day or two.
With Medicare I don’t recall the price but it’s minimal.
Like I said, the old man was tough, way more so than I will ever be or can imagine being, old school, and said it was worse than losing one’s top row of teeth to a kraut bayonet :-(