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Flu shot + Covid-19 shots
Can you get them at the same time? Yes
“We’re still kind of learning what the seasonal Covid pattern is going to be,” says Ryan Maves, MD, professor of infectious diseases at Wake Forest School of Medicine and chair of the American College of Chest Physicians’ COVID-19 Task Force. About 97% of the country has Covid antibodies at this point, “so the question is: Is [the Covid vaccine] going to be like a flu shot every year? Is that going to be routine now? Probably.”
Dr. Maves adds that Covid variants continue to change more rapidly than the flu does. So the official recommendation is that everybody stay up-to-date with the latest Covid vaccine as it becomes available, which should be by the end of September 2023.
When Covid-19 vaccines were first rolling out in the United States, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended waiting two weeks between the shots and other immunizations as a precaution, but the agency has changed course and now says you can do both at once.
“There were some concerns early on given the newness of the Covid-19 vaccines, but now we know that it is safe to get both at the same time,” says Mohammad Sobhanie, MD, an infectious disease expert at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, OH.
The New York Times published a fascinating 3-D visualization, "An Inside Look at Covid's Lasting Damage to the Lungs". As a person with deformed upper airways, I couldn't look away.
To better understand the long-term impact of Covid’s assault on the lungs, The New York Times spoke with three patients who were hospitalized during the pandemic’s early waves, interviewed doctors who treated them and reviewed C.T. scans of their lungs over time.
One patient spent time connected to a ventilator; the other two were so debilitated they required months on a heart-lung bypass machine called ECMO. These patients were not yet vaccinated — for two, vaccines weren’t available, and the third had planned to get vaccinated but was infected before he could.
The Times analyzed hundreds of millions of data points from the patients’ scans to reconstruct their lungs in 3-D. The resulting visualization offers a vivid, visceral picture of damage that can linger years after infection and irrevocably alter everyday life.
I think there's going to be a big covid surge between now and the time the new vaccine is available. People around here are starting to wear masks, yesterday was the first day of school and that's a spreader. My sister in Williamsburg VA called and she has covid--she got the vaccine about a month ago so I guess she must have one of these new mutations.
I think there's going to be a big covid surge between now and the time the new vaccine is available. People around here are starting to wear masks, yesterday was the first day of school and that's a spreader. My sister in Williamsburg VA called and she has covid--she got the vaccine about a month ago so I guess she must have one of these new mutations.
Yep. We stopped going to the gym, and will probably start wearing masks if the numbers in our area go up much more. I just need to get the next booster.
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My oldest daughter (a teacher) tested positive for Covid yesterday after being back with kids for a week. She said she is just congested, but otherwise feels fine. Her school has had many kids and teachers come down with Covid since school resumed.
H and I are hoping an updated vaccine will be ready before we leave for Europe mid October.
My oldest daughter (a teacher) tested positive for Covid yesterday after being back with kids for a week. She said she is just congested, but otherwise feels fine. Her school has had many kids and teachers come down with Covid since school resumed.
H and I are hoping an updated vaccine will be ready before we leave for Europe mid October.
We leave in for UK in October too, I'm just waiting for it to come out.
My doc was double masked earlier this week, it's because she leaves for HI next week, AND she is hearing about a lot of covid going around.
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