In the COVID era, the success of the varicella vaccine in the nineties is staggering to contemplate.
Source: What Happened After the Chicken-Pox Vaccine?
I recall getting chickenpox while living at the end of maryvale road; missed going to the hockey tournament that weeked in Staynor; we won, which was unusauial for us, since we usually got beat pretty bad by the big farmboys in bowmanville, pickeeting, port hope, and perhaps bbellvile; we did go to kingston or toronto, that was foer the AAA teram. I can visualize the trophy ; ~16 sided spehar (not a deodecahedron 20-sided; with a plyer on top.
Also: chickenpox: 70/y covid-19: ~320/y
“Before the varicella vaccine, chicken pox killed about seventy children in the U.S. every year. By comparison, in the first twenty-three months of the current pandemic, six hundred and sixty-one children under the age of twelve have died of covid.”
