absolutely wild to see evidence come out that shingles vaccination has a strong link to reduction in alzheimers cases

(via https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/110459991081722237)

the idea that the generation after mine might literally luck into a significant reduction in alzheimers cases due to expanding shingles vaccination and/or the chickenpox vaccine is frankly a little spooky

EDIT: Important caveats brought up by @belarius here https://cohost.org/belarius/post/1591758-here-s-the-crucial-f, notably:

THIS IS A PREPRINT. The manuscript has not completed the peer-review process, and it may transpire that there are methodological or analytic problems that are identified at that stage that invalidate the above conclusions