Vaccines for flu and COVID: Should you get both at the same time?

Everyone 6 months and older is advised to get nan updated 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccines and nan updated 2024-2025 flu vaccines, according to nan latest guidance from nan U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

With September and October wide considered nan champion times to get vaccinated for flu and COVID-19, immoderate whitethorn wonderment whether it’s OK to get some shots astatine nan aforesaid time.

The CDC states connected its website that "it is safe to person COVID-19 and flu vaccines astatine nan aforesaid visit."

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The advantages are peculiarly cardinal for young children, nan agency noted.

Everyone 6 months and older is advised to get nan updated 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccines and nan updated 2024-2025 flu vaccines, according to nan latest guidance from nan CDC. (iStock)

"Giving respective shots astatine nan aforesaid clip intends less agency visits," nan CDC states. "This saves parents clip and money, and tin beryllium little traumatic for nan child."

Dr. Marc Siegel, elder aesculapian expert for Fox News and objective professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center, agrees that it’s OK to get some astatine nan aforesaid clip —  but he prefers to do them separately.

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"My individual sensation connected this arsenic a practicing internist is I thin to abstracted them, only because I want to cognize which is causing which broadside effects, truthful I tin show it," he told Fox News Digital. 

"But for group who say, ‘I'm only going to nan drugstore once, is it safe to person them together?’, nan reply is perfectly yes."

"I thin to abstracted them, only because I want to cognize which is causing which broadside effects truthful I tin show it," 1 expert told Fox News Digital. (iStock)

Dr. Jacob Glanville, CEO of Centivax, a San Francisco biotechnology company, recommends that group get some vaccines astatine nan aforesaid doctor’s aliases pharmacist’s visit. 

"Studies person shown that co-administering flu and coronavirus vaccines makes them activity astir arsenic efficaciously arsenic administering them separately," he told Fox News Digital.

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Glanville said he personally gets some vaccines astatine erstwhile for 2 reasons — "because of nan subject and for convenience."

"I didn’t consciousness that nan logistical nuisance was worthy nan hold for maine personally, and would alternatively get it complete pinch connected a azygous vaccine time than having to schedule aggregate visits," he said.

"Giving respective shots astatine nan aforesaid clip intends less agency visits," nan CDC states. "This saves parents clip and money, and tin beryllium little traumatic for nan child." (iStock)

This besides allows patients to person faster vaccine sum against some pathogens, Glanville noted.

"Even if you are personification who mightiness acquisition immoderate broadside effects from a vaccine, I for illustration to harvester them."   

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Beth Battaglino, CEO of HealthyWomen and a registered caregiver successful New Jersey, agrees that getting updated COVID-19 and flu vaccines together, astatine nan aforesaid visit, is simply a safe and communal practice known arsenic "coadministration."

"Even if you are personification who mightiness acquisition immoderate broadside effects from a vaccine, I for illustration to harvester them." 

"This is simply a convenient measurement to enactment protected while avoiding aggregate trips to your expert aliases pharmacy," she told Fox News Digital.

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"Vaccination remains nan champion measurement to forestall terrible illness, particularly for high-risk groups for illustration older adults and those pinch underlying health conditions."