ST Alpha - "Can you get the flu shot and the new booster at the same time?" (Reading a Post)

SlickerTalk
Search Archives
The Leaderboard
The FAQ

Down to Post

Backboards:

Posts: 159

Can you get the flu shot and the new booster at the same time?

Posted by crash davis (aka crash davis) Sep 23 '22, 08:09

By Dani Blum
Updated
Sept. 22, 2022, 1:06 p.m. ETSept. 22, 2022
Sept. 22, 2022, 1:06 p.m. ET
Yes. Some public health officials are strongly recommending getting both the flu shot and the new bivalent booster at once — Dr. Asish Jha, who leads the White House’s pandemic response, remarked in a press briefing that “God gave us two arms: one for the flu shot and the other one for the Covid shot.”

Combining vaccines, in general, is not unusual: children often receive multiple shots at once, said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco. And getting two shots at the same time means you’re less likely to forget, or put off, either one, he added. “Convenience trumps everything,” he said.

Most people will want to get one shot in each arm, Dr. Chin-Hong said, but you can receive both vaccines in the same arm — you just might be extra sore. “It’s personal preference — there’s no medical reason to do it one way or another,” said Dr. Adam Ratner, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at N.Y.U. Langone.

People who opt for two vaccines at once might experience more side effects, which are similar for both shots: tenderness at the injection site, headaches, fatigue. A small number of people may develop a fever.

If you want to spread out your shots, you may want to schedule your flu shot for later in the fall, so that protection from the vaccine kicks in when cases begin to rise in the winter. You can also monitor flu activity in your state, through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s influenza surveillance reports, to assess whether you want to get the shot now or later.

https://www.nytimes.com/article/covid-booster-flu-shot-same-time.html (www.nytimes.com)

Responses:

David and I will get both sometime soon. Maybe today, even. -- nm - Dark Callisto Sep 23, 09:05
Yes, but I will not as the timing is off. Flu is October. And the covid omnicron can't be until November. -- nm - Qale Sep 23, 08:42
Yes. I am getting both tomorrow -- nm - decline Sep 23, 08:31
I did that last year and regretted it. -- nm - loosilu Sep 23, 08:25
Are there any thoughts yet on side effects? I had a really nasty reaction to the 2nd Moderna booster. -- nm - Meg Sep 23, 08:19 4
- Define nasty? My first Moderna booster was like getting run over by a truck ( after 2 Pfizer) 4th shot not so much 5th sore arm 3 days -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 23, 11:17
- I had all my shots Pfizer before. Got Moderna this time. No side effects. -- nm - oblique Sep 23, 08:58
- got both last Sat. felt slightly achy Sat night but that's about it (tho I've never had any serious reaction to any of my four Moderna shots so far) -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 23, 08:49
- I haven't heard of anything, but I'd talk it over with a professional. I ended up only working a half day the day after my 2nd Moderna - crash davis Sep 23, 08:36
I did that last year. Earlier this year, I also got booster and first shingles shot at the same time -- (edited) - JD Sep 23, 08:14 11
- Yes. DO NOT recommend COVID/shingles at the same time. - Dark Callisto Sep 23, 09:13
- when are you supposed to start getting the shingles shot? -- nm - colin Sep 23, 08:29 4
  - age 50. I plan to be at CVS on my 50th birthday for the first shot. -- nm - ty97 Sep 23, 08:36 3
    - Yes, and everyone should do this. Poor Spawn suffered so that we could all learn the dangers of Shingles. -- nm - David Sep 23, 09:29
    - saaaame. my FIL got it and it's terrible -- nm - colin Sep 23, 09:13 1
      - I still have facial numbness. -- nm - Spawn Sep 23, 09:27
- ALL THE VACCINES! -- nm - Dano Sep 23, 08:23 2
  - If they let me get the newest booster, I could ask for a triple when I go for the second part of the shingles vaccination -- nm - JD Sep 23, 08:24 1
    - I think I can give blood again now. I should donate before I get the Fall vaccines because I think I have to wait after a vaccine to donate. -- nm - Dano Sep 23, 08:30
- You tough -- nm - crash davis Sep 23, 08:16 1
  - More driven by the efficiency (read: being too lazy to go multiple times) of a single visit -- nm - JD Sep 23, 08:19
Me, my wife, and my parents both did recently. I chose one in each arm. My wife did both in one. She's crazy like that. -- nm - oblique Sep 23, 08:12 1
- She tough -- nm - crash davis Sep 23, 08:14
contrary to what the article says, my experience was no - they didn't have the new booster yet -- nm - crash davis Sep 23, 08:09

Post a message top

Can you get the flu shot and the new booster at the same time?

Replies are disabled on threads older than 7 days.