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Flu-Shot Schedule

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RSV: Respiratory Syncytial Virus Immunization 

  • CDC recommends an RSV vaccine for everyone ages 75 and older, and adults 60-74 at increased risk of severe RSV.​​

  • Adults 60-74 who are at increased risk include those with chronic heart or lung disease, certain other chronic medical conditions, and those who are residents of nursing homes or other long-term care facilities.

  • RSV vaccine is not currently an annual vaccine, meaning older adults do not need to get a dose every RSV season.  That means if you have already gotten an RSV vaccine, you do not need to get another one at this time.

The best time to get vaccinated is in late summer and early fall - just before RSV usually starts to spread in the community. 

If you are pregnant: 

  • 1 dose of maternal RSV vaccine during weeks 32 through 36 of pregnancy, administered September through January.  Pfizer Abrysvo is the only RSV vaccine recommended during pregnancy.

*People who recently had SARS-COV-2 infection may consider delaying a COVID-19 vaccine dose by 3 months from symptom onset or positive test (if infection was asymptomatic).

*Side effects for people ages 12 and older:
        - Local: injection site pain; injection site redness and swelling,                         and axillary swelling/tendernesss.
        - Systematic: fatigue, headache, myalgia, arthralgia, and chills;                         less commonly, fever and nausea.                  

* Administration of COVID-19 vaccines should not be delayed in patients taking immunosuppressive therapies. Whenever possible, COVID-19 vaccines should be administered at least 2 weeks before initiation or resumption of immunosuppressive therapies.  Please check with your physician.
        
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