Bacterial pneumonia and vaccine (recommended for age >=50)

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Practice Alert: Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccines Approved for Adults | AAFP shows the serotypes covered by the various pneumonia vaccines.

PCV20 is a superset of PCV15 and PCV13, but PCV20, PCV21, and PPSV23 are not supersets of each other. The PCV vaccines tend to generate stronger immune responses than the PPSV vaccine.

@ClassicMom98

The pharmacist told me it was a once in a lifetime shot and it was “the newest one”, but looking at my records it was the CAPVAXIVE vaccine, not prevnar

Of course, if a future PCV vaccine contains more serotypes that were not in the vaccine you got, you may still choose to get it then. Actually, someone who wants maximum serotype coverage would get both PCV20 and PCV21, but that currently is not in the recommendations.