>>>Is the chicken pox shot mandated in most states now?
That caught my eye too.
I just took my kids to a new doctor for a checkup recently, and the chicken pox vaccine was really being pushed. When I told the medical assistant, No, they haven't had chicken pox shots, she said: "They haven't had their chicken pox shots? We're really pushing that now. The chicken pox are really getting bad now. So bad that we're giving two shots." (????)