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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 international research. 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 say there appeared to be no 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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About The Study: In this study of health care workers who received a COVID-19 vaccine, an influenza vaccine, or both, co-administration was not associated with substantially inferior immune response or to more frequent adverse events compared with COVID-19 vaccine administration alone, supporting the co-administration of these vaccines.
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