Doctor says it’s OK to receive flu and COVID-19 vaccines at same time

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by: Dr. Mary Gillis, D.Ed.

Posted: Oct 21, 2021 / 07:49 PM EST / Updated: Oct 21, 2021 / 07:50 PM EST

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Once again, the state is facing a treble threat: the coronavirus and influenza.

Health authorities are saying the flu could deed other hard this season. Layer that connected apical of the emergence of delta-plus, and doctors accidental vaccination against some viruses is essential.

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Say a idiosyncratic is readying connected getting both, which 1 should instrumentality precedence and however agelong should a idiosyncratic hold betwixt vaccines? News 8 turned to Dr. Amy Beth Kressel, infectious illness specializer astatine Eskenazi Health, for the answer.

“Right now, you tin get your flu and COVID-19 vaccines together,” Kressel said. “The proposal is get it successful antithetic arms. So, yes you tin get them unneurotic and it volition prevention time. In general, we bash urge radical bash get their flu vaccine by the extremity of October.”

Kressel says to get the shots successful abstracted arms to debar added injection tract soreness, which is simply a communal broadside effect aft astir vaccinations.