The Vaccine That Adults 50+ Shouldn’t Skip

SOURCES:Lisa Junker, Centerville, Virginia.Paul E. Sax, professor, Harvard Medical School; clinical director, Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston.Ankush Bansal, MD, self-employed internal medicine hospitalist; telemedicine doctor; clinical associate professor, Florida International University, Miami; president-elect, Physicians for Social Responsibility.Ali Dehghani, DO, resident doctor, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland.Infectious Disease Week (IDWeek) 2025 Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Oct. 19-22, 2025: “Impact of Prior Zoster Vaccination on Cardiovascular, Dementia, and Mortality Outcomes Following Herpes Zoster Infection: A matched cohort study using TriNetX.”