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Can the shingles vaccine slow ageing? The evidence is surprisingly strong

10 points| daegloe | 14 days ago |economist.com

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apothegm|14 days ago

It’s not clear from this what they controlled for. Mutually causative factors (people who got the vaccine being better off socioeconomically, or simply more interested in taking care of their health) could account for much if not all of the correlation.