It has been approved by the FDA for the 2026-2027 flu season, with accelerated approval for adults 65 and over. It’s supposed to be more effective than the old flu vaccine, and in addition, they can be quicker about tailoring it to the most current strain of flu going around.
We’d like to get it. The trouble is, my local CVS says they won’t be carrying it for this year’s flu season, and the pharmacist at Safeway was only vaguely aware of it and didn’t know if or when they’d be carrying it, either.
So maybe I should call my GP and see if their office will offer it? Has anybody else asked around about this?
Sure, I don’t see where it would hurt to ask. If you have a boutique practice they might even be more likely to have access it. But if you’re in an HMO like me (Kaiser) you’ll get what they’ve got, end of story .
My inclination is to wait a year as there is a possibility of rare, serious side-effects from a new medicine which has only been tested on a relatively small number of people.
Criminy. I’m set for flu shot and COVID booster next week.
I’ll have to remember to ask which I’m getting.
I always assume I’m getting the latest.
I had a push and tug with them about which pneumonia vax they were sticking me with. I wanted the one for high-risk adults. It was two shots. They had the other.
I contacted my GP’s office and got a reply back. They’ve never heard of the new Moderna shot. So I sent them a link to Harvard’s and Mayo Clinic’s websites discussing it. I guess I’m getting the old-school shot this year.
This morning I got my flu shot, so I’ll have ramped-up immunity before we go on a road trip in about three weeks. The pharmacist herself administered it, so I got a chance to talk directly to her about this new mRNA flu vaccine. She was totally clueless - hadn’t heard a thing about it. Sheesh, am I the only one to read medical news?
The other advantage that Moderna cites for this new one is that they can combine it with their Covid vax so you can get both in one shot. That’ll have to wait until next year, I guess.
The CVS website usually lets me see which vaccine each location offers. I’ve used that to pick a location that has the one i want. Costco also tells you in their website.
Personally, I’m going to avoid the new mRNA vaccine, because it has worse symptoms, and i get really sick from the mRNA covid vaccine. But it makes sense to seek it out if you want the best possible protection from this year’s flu. I’m really surprised your medical helpers haven’t heard of it. It was all over the news.
I have gotten the flu and Covid vaccines on the same day for the last two years just because it was convenient. I was talking to my mom and she brought up a good point. If you have a horrible reaction for some reason, you won’t know which one caused it (or maybe the combo caused it). If you get them separately and you have a bad reaction, you will know.
Eh, i get them at the same time in the same arm, close enough together that the pharmacist uses a single bandaid. Last year i had the flu and covid vaccines at different times for some reason i can’t recall, and yup, it’s still the covid vaccine that makes me sick and the flu vaccine that barely makes my arm sore. But there’s not really a lot of value in knowing that. And it’s still convenient to get them at the same time. That’s my plan this year, in late October, so i still have robust protection through new year’s Eve.
Actually serious reactions are very rare. If you have one, I’m sure an allergist can figure out what went wrong. But the odds of that happening, and needing to know which vaccine was to blame, are tiny.
To actually get multiple vaccines in a single shot requires regulatory approval, and testing, and all that. Getting multiple vaccines at once doesn’t. Go figure.
Depends on your threshold for “serious”. Life-threatening is definitely extremely rare. But some people feel migraine-level rotten for a few days, which is still quite unpleasant.
I feel migraine-level rotten for a day or two after the covid vaccine. I run a fever and my whole body aches. And last year i even confirmed that that’s why. (Not flu vaccine) But… I’m still going to get both, because my husband is immune compromised and i need to try to avoid catching them. And it’s a systemic reaction, so it doesn’t matter which arm i get the vaccine in. And it doesn’t really matter which vaccine is the cause. I just need to schedule them when i can afford one or two “down days”.
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