Yes, You Can Get A Covid Booster & A Flu Shot Together. Here's What You Need To Know. Wash Post

[appalachiablue]

- The Washington Post, Sept. 13, 2021.

With flu season swiftly approaching in a country already battling a resurgence of the coronavirus, experts are urging Americans to avail themselves of any and all vaccines they are eligible for — whether it’s their first coronavirus vaccination, a booster vaccine dose to combat waning immunity or a flu shot.

“It’s terribly important” to get both the flu and coronavirus vaccines, said William Schaffner, medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. “They are both very nasty respiratory viruses that can make many people very, very sick.” And because the coronavirus and flu vaccines “train your immune system to protect you against completely different viruses,” getting a shot that protects you against one virus will not offer any protection against the other, said Kelly Moore, president and CEO of the Immunization Action Coalition.

“It’s like protecting yourself against a bee and a wasp, both of which can sting you,” Schaffner said. “You’ve got to protect yourself against each one separately.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that everyone be vaccinated against the flu by the end of October. This year, that time frame overlaps with the period that many Americans may become eligible for a booster dose of the coronavirus vaccine. A proposed plan from the Biden administration recommends an extra dose be administered eight months after the second shot of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines. (Officials are waiting for more data before proposing a booster timeline for the Johnson and Johnson vaccine.)

Extra doses of coronavirus vaccine are already being administered to immunocompromised people. According to the Biden administration proposal, booster shots would become more widely available starting the week of Sept. 20, though they may initially be limited to people who received the Pfizer vaccine. Some experts, including two U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials who are set to depart the agency, disagree about the need for additional shots at this time and the World Health Organization’s chief has criticized the use of boosters for healthy people. But the Biden administration appears to be going ahead with the plan, which requires authorization from federal health agencies...

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- HuffPost, What Happens If You Get Your Flu Shot & COVID Booster At The Same Time? Sept. 13, 2021
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/covid-booster-flu-shot_l_613e9ef9e4b0628d095cd80a

[samplegirl]

1. I'm not happy about this....

I can’t take the Flu shot because I had Guillain Barre
But still want protected with the booster.

[appalachiablue]

2. Why do u have to take both? Ask the RX, just get the booster

What if I want to space the shots out?

People who have a history of strong adverse reactions to vaccines or other reasons for not wanting to get two shots at the same time, can space out the injections if they prefer, experts said, as long as they make sure to get the vaccines within the recommended time frame.

So don’t delay going in for a flu shot in order to get it at the same time as a coronavirus booster if it means waiting until the end of October has passed. “You should get the flu shot when it’s a good time to get the flu shot,” Schaffner said. “You don’t want to put it off.”

[Ray Bruns]

3. I usually get a fever after a vaccine.

So I got my flu shot today.

I will wait until the CDC recommends a booster for the Moderna to get that. After my second shot, definitely didn't want to get them together.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

4. I got the moderna vaccine

What would happen if I got a pfizer booster?

Would I implode? Or what?
Anyone else wonder about this?

[Sancho]

5. I got the booster and flu at the same time...

...no problem.