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Just to add anecdata: both myself and partner got our booster in early december 2021. Right before christmas, my partner came down with covid. I didn't bother to isolate from her because it would have been ineffective given our living space.

I never came down with symptoms myself - but 3 weeks later, I developed shingles, aka herpes zoster. Do not recommend the experience.

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Shingles outbreaks are increasingly common for those of us too old to have gotten the chickenpox vaccine but still too young to receive the shingles vaccine.

It’s miserable, and maybe your case was indeed triggered by some immune system modulation at the time, but plenty of us were having it sneak up on us in the years before too. I wouldn’t think too much of it as covid-related, per se.

You can get an off label vaccine even if you’re too young.

Except for those of us who get shingles as teenagers (after having had childhood chickenpox)

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