Kim Beckham, an insurance agent in Victoria, Texas, had seen friends suffer so badly from shingles that she wanted to receive the first approved shingles vaccine as soon as it became available, even if she had to pay for it out-of-pocket.
Kim Beckham, an insurance agent in Victoria, Texas, had seen friends suffer so badly from shingles that she wanted to receive the first approved shingles vaccine as soon as it became available, even if she had to pay for it out-of-pocket.
That’s because many older people remember being sick with diseases that have since become preventable thanks to vaccines. I remember the long lines at a local high school for the polio vaccine. Parents couldn’t vaccinate their kids fast enough. I missed a week of Little League baseball because my parents decided that at age 12, I was too old for the measles vaccine. I’ll be getting vaccinated in a back alley if I have to, there’s no way I’m going back to the 1950s.