North Carolina health officials encourage residents to get fall COVID-19 vaccine and flu shot
Special to Iredell Free News RALEIGH -- Everyone 6 months and older should get the fall COVID-19 vaccine with their flu shot.
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Special to Iredell Free News RALEIGH -- Everyone 6 months and older should get the fall COVID-19 vaccine with their flu shot.
Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The latest, updated COVID-19 vaccines should soon be available to everyone and offered largely free of cost, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Health authorities recommend that everyone over the age of 6 months should get the shot, which is designed to offer additional protection against current sub variants. Though it's the first season that COVID vaccines will no longer be covered by the government, insurance companies as well as government-run programs like Medicaid and Medicare a...
The CDC recommends everyone ages six months and older to get the updated vaccine.
Dr. Eric Chow discusses the updated vaccine recommended by the CDC
Updated Covid boosters from Pfizer and Moderna will soon be administered at pharmacies, and many other locations across the U.S.