Getting flu and COVID shot together still reasonable amid safety review of potential stroke risk: Experts

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Getting flu and COVID shot together still reasonable amid safety review of potential stroke risk: Experts
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Experts urged results were preliminary and may be explained by other factors.

October 26, 2023, 5:18 AMA unidentified Department of Health and Mental Hygiene employee holds a Covid-19 Moderna booster shot, on Oct. 10, 2023, at City Hall in New York.

The results were also not yet peer-reviewed, meaning it hasn't been vetted in the normal scientific process. There was about a 20-35% increased stroke risk in older adults that received both shots in the same visits, according to the study. The Food and Drug Administration told ABC News in part of a statement that they remain, "confident in the safety, effectiveness and quality of the COVID-19 vaccines that the agency has authorized and approved."

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