HAVING a flu shot at the same time as a COVID-19 vaccine does not appear to impact the immune response prompted by either, according to new research published in the JAMA Network Open.
The team compared groups of healthcare workers who received a flu vaccine, the Pfizer BA.4/BA.5 bivalent COVID-19 vaccine or both at the same time by giving them a questionnaire about their post-vaccine symptoms, and testing the antibody responses in their blood.
The researchers found that there appeared to be no significant difference in the participants' responses to the vaccines, both with post-vaccine symptoms and their immune responses, which they say supports the idea of getting both vaccines at once.
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