Shingles vaccine linked to slower biological aging in older adults: Along with protecting against the painful illness, shingles vaccination correlates with lower inflammation, slower epigenetic and transcriptomic aging, and slower overall biological aging in Americans age 70 and older.

Random rant: Anti-Vaxxers were all opposed to the COVID vaccines due to not being “conventional vaccines”, unlike “all the other ones.” When pressed, they never could define what a “conventional vaccine” actually was (because they pretty much would all exclude one or more existing accepted vaccines), but a common criteria was “keeps you from getting infected with the disease.”

They never did have a good answer for the Shingles vaccine, since it’s mainly meant to protect people who have had varicella already, and will still have it in their bodies after receiving the shingles vaccine.