It will be more like when you think about the flu shot, that every year we have to go get it. “It will be more like when you think about the flu shot, that every year we have to go get it.”ĭon’t think as the number of shots anymore. Samreen Vora, an emergency room physician at Children’s Minnesota. “Don’t think about it by the number of shots anymore,” said Dr. Unvaccinated children 6 months through 4 years of age are eligible to receive three doses of the updated authorized Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine or two doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.įrom now on, experts say, it may be better to think of the COVID shot like the flu shot.
(The timing and number of doses depends on the previous COVID vaccine received.) Children 6 months through 4 years of age who have previously been vaccinated are eligible to receive one or two doses of an updated mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.People 5 years of age and older, regardless of previous vaccination, are eligible to receive a single dose of an updated mRNA COVID-19 vaccine after at least two months since their last dose of any COVID vaccine.Here are specifics from the Minnesota Department of Health (your provider or clinic will also know what shots to give you or your child): Things get a little more complicated for those getting shots for the first time. If you’ve already had your primary series, it doesn’t matter which you get this time-both have been shown to be effective, Dr. The Food and Drug Administration approved shots from both Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna. Will my health clinic ask me which shot I want? Please help! I lost track of which COVID shots I was getting: Moderna, Pfizer, J & J. They increase “herd immunity” to protect the most vulnerable.
They reduce the severity and duration of the illness,ĥ. They reduce the risk of severe infection (getting hospitalized or even dying).ģ. They reduce the risk of getting infected (at least for several months).Ģ.
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