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Flu-Shot Schedule

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RSV: Respiratory Syncytial Virus Immunization 

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  • CDC recommends an RSV vaccine for everyone ages 75 and older, and adults 60-74 at increased risk of severe RSV.​​

  • Adults 60-74 who are at increased risk include those with chronic heart or lung disease, certain other chronic medical conditions, and those who are residents of nursing homes or other long-term care facilities.

  • RSV vaccine is not currently an annual vaccine, meaning older adults do not need to get a dose every RSV season.  That means if you have already gotten an RSV vaccine, you do not need to get another one at this time.

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The best time to get vaccinated is in late summer and early fall - just before RSV usually starts to spread in the community.​ 

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If you are pregnant: 

  • 1 dose of maternal RSV vaccine during weeks 32 through 36 of pregnancy, administered September through January.  Pfizer Abrysvo is the only RSV vaccine recommended during pregnancy.

*People who recently had SARS-COV-2 infection may consider delaying a COVID-19 vaccine dose by 3 months from symptom onset or positive test (if infection was asymptomatic).

*Side effects for people ages 12 and older:
        - Local: injection site pain; injection site redness and swelling,                         and axillary swelling/tendernesss.
        - Systematic: fatigue, headache, myalgia, arthralgia, and chills;                         less commonly, fever and nausea.                  

* Administration of COVID-19 vaccines should not be delayed in patients taking immunosuppressive therapies. Whenever possible, COVID-19 vaccines should be administered at least 2 weeks before initiation or resumption of immunosuppressive therapies.  Please check with your physician.
        
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