Covid Shot and Fle Shot Together - Info from my Doctor

Influenza vaccine ok to take with COVID (and btw, the CDC is encouraging this so healthcare workers don’t have to deal with both illnesses), but Shingrax vaccine NO. I did not ask further from the pharmacist.

this morning together. Or so he told me when he came out.

This is an evolutionary advantage to get you to distance yourself from your pack.

It is not your immune system itself being overwhelmed. It can handle more than one shot generally speaking.

I recall one of the questions when I signed up for my first shot in March was whether I had a vaccination within two weeks. The didn't specify what sort of vaccine.

My gut feeling is that I want my body to devote its resources to work on one virus at a time. I don't think I've seen any data about doubling up.

I've already had the flu shot and am awaiting a decision about the Moderna booster so this is rapidly becoming a non issue for me.

But if you don't get them together, you need to wait 2 weeks.

All inactivated vaccines, including COVID-19 vaccines, can be given on the same day, or on any day before or after giving other inactivated or live vaccines. Early guidance from ACIP recommended against coadministration of COVID-19 vaccines with other vaccinations; however, ACIP updated its guidance in mid-2021 to state that these vaccines may be coadministered with other vaccinations when necessary.


In adults, now that Shingrex has pretty much become the vaccine of choice for shingles, all vaccines administered routinely are inactivated. (with the exception of yellow fever vaccine for travel, a booster of measles, mumps, rubella vaccine for potentially exposed Health Care workers, or small pox--none which come into play routinely for most adult Americans). Thus, COVID-19 most certainly CAN be given with routine adult vaccines, including most certainly influenza.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/clinical-considerations/covid-19-vaccines-us.html#Coadministration

No side effects.