How the shortage for shingles vaccine affects us in SWFL

Credit: FILE Photo from 2017 (GlaxoSmithKline via AP).

There is a shortage for the new shingles vaccine across the United States.

And the company that makes it just got approved to sell it in China.

WINK News Health and Medical Reporter Channing Frampton has the full story about how this impacts patient in Southwest Florida. Watch the video above to learn more.

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