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Nov 7, 2023 · COVID-19 vaccinations are now part of the immunization schedule for children age 6 months and older. Kids can get a COVID-19 vaccine during their well-child visit or anytime they become eligible based on the vaccination schedule.
- What You Need to Know
- Recommendations for Everyone Aged 5 Years and Older
- Recommendations for Children Aged 6 Months—4 Years
- Recommendation for People Who May Get Additional Updated COVID-19 Vaccines
- When Are You Up to Date?
- How Well COVID-19 Vaccines Work
- About COVID-19 Vaccines
- Getting Vaccines If You Recently Had COVID-19
- Vaccination Received Outside the United States
•CDC recommends the 2023–2024 updated COVID-19 vaccines: Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, or Novavax, to protect against serious illness from COVID-19.
•Everyone aged 5 years and older ‡ should get 1 dose of an updated COVID-19 vaccine to protect against serious illness from COVID-19.
•Children aged 6 months–4 years need multiple doses of COVID-19 vaccines to be up to date, including at least 1 dose of updated COVID-19 vaccine.
•People who are moderately or severely immunocompromised may get additional doses of updated COVID-19 vaccine.
•COVID-19 vaccine recommendations will be updated as needed.
•People who are up to date have lower risk of severe illness, hospitalization and death from COVID-19 than people who are unvaccinated or who have not completed the doses recommended for them by CDC.
Children aged 5 years – 11 years who are not vaccinated or have gotten previous COVID-19 vaccine(s)
Children aged 5 years – 11 years who are unvaccinated or have previously gotten a COVID-19 vaccine before September 12, 2023, should get 1 updated Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
People aged 12 years and older who are not vaccinated
Moderna Novavax
People aged 12 years and older who got previous COVID-19 vaccine(s)
Vaccine Overview Learn more about COVID-19 vaccines Pfizer-BioNTech VaccineModerna VaccineNovavax Vaccine ‡12 years and older: People aged 12 years and older who have not previously gotten any COVID-19 vaccine doses and choose to get Novavax should get 2 doses of updated Novavax vaccine to be up to date.
Children Who Are Not Vaccinated
Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine Overview Moderna Moderna Vaccine Overview
Children Who Got Previous COVID-19 Vaccine(s)
One Previous Dose Two or More Previous Doses Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine Overview Moderna One Previous Dose Two or More Previous Doses Moderna Vaccine Overview
People who are moderately or severely immunocompromised may get additional doses of updated COVID-19 vaccines. Talk to your healthcare provider about additional updated doses.
Everyone aged 5 years and older
You are up to date when you get 1 updated COVID-19 vaccine.‡
Children aged 6 months—4 years
You are up to date when you get all recommended doses, including at least 1 dose of updated COVID-19 vaccine.
People who got the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen COVID-19 vaccine
You are up to date when you get 1 updated COVID-19 vaccine.
•People who are up to date have lower risk of severe illness, hospitalization and death from COVID-19 than people who are unvaccinated or who have not completed the doses recommended for them by CDC.
•Additional updated COVID-19 vaccine doses can help restore protection that has decreased since previous vaccination.
COVID-19 vaccines available in the United States are effective at protecting people from getting seriously ill, being hospitalized, and dying. As with other vaccine-preventable diseases, you are best protected from COVID-19 when you stay up to date with the recommended vaccinations.
COVID-19 vaccines recommended for use in the United States:
•Pfizer-BioNTech
•Moderna
If you recently had COVID-19, you still need to stay up to date with your vaccines, but you may consider delaying your vaccine by 3 months.
Reinfection is less likely in the weeks to months after infection. However, certain factors could be reasons to get a vaccine sooner rather than later, such as:
•personal risk of severe disease,
•risk of disease in a loved one or close contact,
•local COVID-19 hospital admission level,
•and the most common COVID-19 variant currently causing illness.
For Healthcare and Public Health
Use of COVID-19 Vaccines in the United States: Interim Clinical Considerations Last Updated Jan. 18, 2024 Source: National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), Division of Viral Diseases
Sep 12, 2023 · But the CDC's advisers included younger adults and children in their recommendations, citing evidence that 54% of kids and teenagers hospitalized with Covid have no underlying health problems...
Policy. In light of that, you may be wondering if your child should get a booster shot. Pediatrician Kimberly Giuliano, MD, says yes, they absolutely should. “People who have received a booster dose have a much higher level of protection than those who have only had two doses of the COVID vaccine,” she explains.
Oct 25, 2022 · The CDC recommends that children aged 5 and above get the new COVID-19 bivalent booster. The two boosters authorized by the Food and Drug Administration and the CDC are made by Moderna (for ages...
May 19, 2022 · Children 5 through 11 should receive a booster dose at least 5 months after their primary series. Vaccination with a primary series among this age group has lagged behind other age groups leaving them vulnerable to serious illness.
Jun 2, 2022 · The CDC recommends that children should get a booster dose five months after finishing their primary COVID-19 vaccination series of two shots. For children ages 12 and up, that means a booster...
