Flu to corona vaccination: Which vaccinations can be given at the same time?
Created: 11/22/2022, 4:28 p.m
By: Juliane Gutmann
If you want to be vaccinated against flu, you can also be immunized against Corona at the same time – right?
You can read the current recommendations here.
Vaccinations reduce the risk of becoming seriously ill.
Vaccines are available against a whole range of dangerous diseases, including
Covid-19, flu, measles, shingles, polio, hepatitis A and B, rabies and many more.
An overview of the vaccinations recommended by the Federal Ministry of Health can be found here.
What many do not consider: You do not only protect yourself with a vaccination.
They can also indirectly protect unvaccinated people from becoming ill because they stop or reduce the further spread of an infectious disease
, according to the Federal Ministry of Health.
One then speaks of community protection through vaccination.
Are you faced with the decision of whether and when you want to be vaccinated against the flu?
The doctors treating you will inform you about the benefits as well as the risks.
Vaccination against the flu is particularly recommended for certain risk groups such as the elderly and those with a weak immune system.
Not only because their risk of a severe course of the disease is increased:
immunization also means relief for the health system, which is currently reaching its limits due to the corona pandemic.
Vaccinations protect against serious illnesses – such as the flu vaccination.
© Jens Kalaene/dpa
But how many vaccinations can you actually have at the same time?
Which time intervals have to be observed?
Influenza vaccination survey
Administer vaccinations at the same time - is that possible?
As the Robert Koch Institute, the leading biomedical research facility of the German federal government, informs, live vaccines containing weakened viruses or bacteria could be administered at the same time.
These include measles and mumps vaccines.
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When using inactivated vaccines, compliance with minimum distances - even to live vaccines - is not required
.
In the (rare) case of an acute vaccination reaction, the symptoms should have subsided before a new vaccination.
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So get vaccinated against flu, corona and other diseases at the same time?
Theoretically possible.
The Federal Center for Health Education (BzGA) informs: "In the 11th update of the COVID-19 vaccination recommendation, the STIKO (Standing Vaccination Commission) now expressly states: Between COVID-19 vaccinations and other so-called dead vaccines (inactivated vaccines that have been killed Pathogens or even only pathogen components that do not multiply and cannot cause a disease) no vaccination interval has to be observed, this also applies in particular to the flu vaccination.
However, the active ingredients should not be injected in the same place, such as the arm.
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No time interval between corona vaccination and immunization with dead vaccines necessary
However, the information from the BzGA also suggests that vaccination reactions occur more frequently after the simultaneous administration of several inactivated vaccines than after separate administration.
"However, there is extensive experience with non-COVID-19 vaccines that shows that the immune response and the side effect profile after the simultaneous administration of different vaccines generally correspond to that when they are used alone," is the explanation behind the STIKO recommendation
that between COVID-19 vaccinations and other vaccinations with inactivated vaccines from September 24, 2021 no longer have to be timed.
According to the STIKO , a minimum distance of
14 days
from the corona vaccination should still be observed for vaccines with non-dead vaccines .