"Being exposed to chickenpox as an adult (for example, through contact with infected children) boosts your immunity to shingles."
"If you vaccinate children against chickenpox, you lose this natural boosting, so immunity in adults will drop and more shingles cases will occur."
It's seemingly not the primary justification the vaccine isn't offered, but I wonder if, to cut to the core question, those who are pro/anti vaccinating the low-risk to protect the high-risk feel the same way when it's flipped.
An interesting reversal of this: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/chickenpox-vaccin...
"Being exposed to chickenpox as an adult (for example, through contact with infected children) boosts your immunity to shingles."
"If you vaccinate children against chickenpox, you lose this natural boosting, so immunity in adults will drop and more shingles cases will occur."
It's seemingly not the primary justification the vaccine isn't offered, but I wonder if, to cut to the core question, those who are pro/anti vaccinating the low-risk to protect the high-risk feel the same way when it's flipped.