Medpundit thinks so:
What does this mean? It means we’ll be giving boosters. Good for Merck. That doubles the demand for their vaccine. And if it turns out the booster’s immunity fades with time, too, there will be another booster. It also means that we will probably see an increase in the incidence of chickenpox again after a steady decline over the past ten years. Which will be all the more reason to promote the booster.
Selling the vaccine to the infectious disease community was truly a golden goose for Merck. It remains to be seen whether it was such a good thing for the rest of us.
Flea is more blunt. He says the vaccine sucks.
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