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Originally Posted by Stu from NYC
I have heard it is best to spread them out some. Did you have any immediate side effects?
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A common strategy is to get one vaccine per arm. If you were to have a localized reaction, you can identify which shot was the cause.
They seen to be recommending no more than two at a tint.
Can COVID, Flu, and RSV Shots Be Given at the Same Time? | MedPage Today
Can COVID, Flu, and RSV Shots Be Given at the Same Time?
Many adults ages 60 and up will be eligible for three vaccines this fall -- a COVID boosteropens in a new tab or window, the flu shot, and the new respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccineopens in a new tab or window -- so the big question is, can they get them all at once?
Since there are no data on giving this trio of vaccines at the same time, most experts advise a different strategy.
Take flu and COVID together, they told MedPage Today. The CDC endorses thisopens in a new tab or window, as there's evidence and experience that people can take this combination just fine.
There's also some evidence from the clinical trials of the two RSV vaccines that it's okay to give flu and RSV shots together, said William Schaffner, MD, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, who is also a spokesperson for the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA).
But Schaffner told MedPage Today that some practitioners may be "a little bit more cautious about giving RSV along with the others," and there "may not be too many people who want to get all three at the same time."
"If there's one [shot] that doctors might want to treat separately, it might be this newbie [RSV], because there simply hasn't been that much experience with it," he said.
It's a single-dose vaccine, so that means seniors would need just two appointments this fall: one for COVID and flu, and the other for RSV.
Schaffner and other experts recommended getting the RSV vaccine at least 2 weeks on either side of the COVID and flu combination, and getting the RSV shot as soon as possible, since it's currently available, and since its protection is likely to sustain through the entire winter and RSV season.
"We can start giving this right now because it's supposed to, according to the data, provide substantial long-term protection through at least one RSV season, and maybe longer," Schaffner said. "It looks as though there is indeed longer-term protection than we get with flu or COVID [vaccines]."
That said, it's OK to give all three at once if that is the only opportunity to do so, said Aaron Glatt, MD, of Mount Sinai South Nassau in Oceanside, New York, who is also a spokesperson for IDSA.
"We don't have a ton of data, but if someone is really that sick, I'd want them to get all those vaccines," Glatt told MedPage Today. "The problem with waiting is, will they get the vaccine? If they need three visits to the doctor, how many people are willing to do that?"