I’m reading that I can get the new booster three months after having covid. Has anyone seen a faster timeline than that, or guidelines for high-risk people?
Thanks!
The US CDC says that you can get a booster as soon as you recover from a COVID-19 infection. However, YLE points to research indicating that getting a booster within the first 2 or 3 months would not get much benefit. YLE recommends waiting about 4 months for high risk people and 6+ months for others.
do you have some special type of plan (that is not ACA-approved)? Otherwise, by law, flu vaccines are covered by the Preventive segment of your ACA-approved health plan.
(Or, it’s just a technical glitch or miscode by the clerk looking up your plan.)
No, they are definitely supposed to be covered. Like I said, the insurance company sent us emails reminding us to get them, that they were covered. It’s just weird that two different clerks at two different pharmacies (a Walgreens and a CVS) both ran into trouble processing the insurance for them. It’s never happened before and I have used it before for flu shots.
Speaking of tests…
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/20/health/free-covid-tests-kits-us-government/index.html
I called our RX plan, as our BCBS said if we got the shot at a pharmacy rather than a clinic (where it isnt yet available) it should fall under our RX plan.I got mixed messages from the person I spoke to, who first said it wasn’t covered and then said it was. I got a reference # for the phonecall. Not sure yet what I will do.
I talked to my doctor yesterday and she said to get the FLU and yet another Covid vax when available (the office didn’t have them yet). Last year when I tried to get a DPT and Pneumonia shot the Safeway pharmacy couldn’t get insurance approval, so I got them at the doctor’s office.
Hope it will work out this year for covid/flu since I don’t really want to drive downtown again.
CVS is giving them out free regardless of insurance
I don’t remember having this much of a reaction to prior Covid shots but I probably did. Red, hot lump on my arm. Achy all over all day. Husband the same. Not excited to have flu, RSV, and Shingrex still to go.
I didn’t have much reaction to the first four shots, but last year’s and yesterday’s knocked me down. Like last year, I had chills all night. finally over them, but very tired and achy. Arm is not bad, just seems as achy as the rest of me (I got flu shot yesterday too. Not sure I need to do RSV, and got Shingrex a couple years ago–wasn’t bad.)
I’m generally very pro-vaccine. But last fall I got Shingles, covid, flu, Tentus, and Shingles (dose 2). The first 4 were each about 2 weeks apart, and then the final Shingles 4 months after the first dose.
If I had to do it over, I would not have gotten so many like that. I probably would have put off the Tentus for awhile, and maybe combined the covid/flu. Hindsight 20-20, I think it weakened my body, the constant injections.
Any way you could put off the RSV until later?
Anyone else putting off the covid vaccine so the protection is stronger for Thanksgiving-Christmas-New Years?
We are actually going to Quebec City in 2 weeks, so it would be nice to have it for that, but I’d rather have it be stronger for the holidays. We have another flight/trip to see younger S in November, and then another longer (but driving) one at Christmas. And January seems to be when there’s a big spike here in the schools. (H is an elementary PE teacher.)
I also prefer to get the flu shot mid to late October, since our flu season is typically in January-early March. And I’m thinking about getting flu/covid together.
Of course, since H is a teacher who is exposed on a daily basis, we could come down with it tomorrow and all of this be moot…
Got the Covid booster and flu shot together two days ago. Was warm and a little achy the first night and tired the next day, but not too bad overall — better than some past experiences.
I’m trying to put off the covid vaccine until the Novavax one is available.
I’m watching the wastewater numbers in my area to figure out when the flu starts to surge. (My area’s wastewater surveillance charts and maps also how covid-19 activity and m’pox activity.)
This probably means I will get the Novavax shot sometime towards the end of next month (?), and the flu sometime after that. I don’t like to get the shots together (although a few years back I did get the flu and second shingles shot together, with no problems).
I’m not sure if I will even get the RSV shot. I’m not around kids, the prime RSV transmitters.
I work for a health care facility that basically requires staff to get an annual flu shot. Last year I got my flu shot and Covid booster on the same day (one in each arm) and if available, will do this again this year. Flu clinics for staff haven’t been announced yet for our facilities…it’s more of an October thing - and so that’s when I’ll aim to get both.
My company scheduled our office flu shot day for the first week of October. I would have gotten my Covid booster this week, but I’ve been fighting a nagging cold for a month.
So far I have had very little reaction to the flu and RSV shots I got on Tuesday. The RSV arm is a bit more red and sore, but that’s it.
We are waiting until late October to get our shots. That will be about 4 months since we both tested positive… so we should be in good shape for the holidays. Will be getting flu shots in a week or two. Mr. B is eligible for the RSV vaccine, so he will get that, too.
I think I’ve read that getting a vax before 6 months has elapsed from your active covid is a waste bcos at 4 months most folks still have plenty of antibodies from teh real thing. Wait until Dec and you are good thru next spring.
I’ve been reading 4-6 months. Based on our prior experience with Covid, 4 months could be our personal “sweet spot.”