This explanation assumes we won't develop a better vaccine in a decade.
Shingrix was expensive. I knew too many people with horrific Shingles.
A couple of days of very mild flu symptoms for me.
Plan to avoid mental or physical responsibilities or events for 2 days after the shot.
Can't one just take boosters later, like, one every decade?
> No Shingrix vaccine booster is currently available.
No, I'm not sure you can.
If you do catch it, it is important that you get antiviral medication as soon as possible to avoid long-term pain afterwards. I had waited three days to see a a doctor because symptoms breaking out at the start of a weekend, and that was close.
In the UK everyone turning 65 is offered the vaccine on the NHS.
The problem is that long term effectiveness generally drops in vaccine. Although we haven't had Shingrix long enough to give great estimates long term evidence of this we have this:
https://www.ncoa.org/article/how-long-does-the-shingles-vacc...
> No Shingrix vaccine booster is currently available.
So if you get it when you are 50, it will be less effective when you are 80 and more vulnerable to shingles. It has nothing to do with "being state funded" and everything to do with giving it to people when they need it rather than wasting it on people who don't, who then can't have it when they actually do need it.
I would really like to be wrong, as the shingles vaccine is less than £500 privately in the UK for both shots, and that would be worth it to not get shingles.
That's precisely my point: you're not offered one before 50.