Why you might have a shingles flare-up after your COVID vaccination
Meanwhile, here’s something else appearing on the horizon:
From your link:
“Shingles reactivates when there may be some mild derangement caused by stress and other things like immune-suppressing medications and intercurrent illnesses, which allow the virus to then begin reactivating and producing the shingles,” he said, adding that the stress of getting a vaccine could act as a factor in causing a shingles flare-up.
I'm pretty sure it's more than "the stress of getting a vaccine".
Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University and a spokesman for the Infectious Diseases Society of America, told the Associated Press that reports of shingles are just a coincidence.
I don't have a lot of friends, so I know if my friends have coincidental reactions or not. I have carefully studied the VAERS data and the statistics of heart attacks, strokes, etc. I know there are a lot of coincidences in VAERS but I also know there are more reports, for example using all synonyms of heart attack, than expected from the statistics of the general population.
That happened to my father in law. Never had shingles before.
“It’s not that the vaccine caused the shingles; the vaccine was just one of what could have been many different triggers to have produced an episode of shingles,” Evans said.
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Oh, ok. That’s great.