Like @hopeful, I've had the 2 part shingles vaccine without serious side effects and Medicare and my ins. pd for both. Each time my arm was pretty sore for a day or two but that has also happened some years following the annual flu vaccine. I also felt very lethargic for those days but it was well worth the temporary discomfort for me.

Shingles can be exhausting and terribly painful and in some cases, a long running malady from which to recover. My daughter had a miserable time with it in her 30's. Hers were around her waist which made wearing waist bands impossible and she was quite ill for several weeks before recovering. It took her 2-3 months to feel like she'd recovered from the fatigue.

Like @coderhomer, I initially pondered whether or not I'd request a Covid vaccine as soon as it became available for wider distribution. At 77 yrs, I'm older with several chronic health conditions which made it important to me to quarantine more closely and for longer than many. I trust our highly reputable infectious disease specialists so when I heard Dr. Fauci say over the weekend that he would take the vaccine when it became available, I trust that I will too. We all react differently to meds and procedures and each will have to decide individually but for me it will be another action I can take for protection from the deadly Covid-19.

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