Most Americans will be eligible for both the new monovalent COVID vaccine and the annual flu shot this fall.
You can schedule your vaccines separately or choose to get them at the same time. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it is safe to get both the COVID vaccine and flu shot together.
Combining vaccines, in general, is not unusual: Children often receive multiple shots at once, said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco. Implementing the same strategy among adults can help more people get up to date on all their shots without having to make multiple visits to a doctor or pharmacy. “Convenience trumps everything,” he said.
You could consider getting one shot in each arm if you want to avoid the discomfort of two needle pricks in the same arm. “It’s personal preference — there’s no medical reason to do it one way or another,” said Dr. Adam Ratner, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at NYU Langone.Another concern is whether getting the COVID vaccine and the flu shot at the same time will negatively affect the body’s immune response to one or both vaccines.
Some experts believe that spreading out your shots might make sense if you can time them to just before each virus peaks. So while you may get the COVID vaccine this month, as cases rise in parts of the United States, you could consider waiting until later in the fall to get the flu shot. Flu cases typically peak between December and February; you can monitor flu activity in your state through the CDC’s influenza surveillance reports for more detailed information.
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