Georgia health departments to offer COVID-19 boosters

ATLANTA – Georgia’s section wellness departments volition statesman offering much COVID-19 vaccine booster shots connected Tuesday, pursuing guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The authorities Department of Public Health announced Friday that shots volition beryllium disposable for radical who had antecedently received the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines. Public wellness departments are already offering booster shots for radical who received the Pfizer vaccine.

The pursuing groups are eligible for boosters:

• Adults who unrecorded successful semipermanent attraction specified arsenic nursing homes.

• Aged 18 and older with an increased hazard for COVID-19 vulnerability due to the fact that of wherever you enactment oregon live.

The authorities is besides recommending boosters for immoderate big who received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine much than 2 months ago. People who received Pfizer oregon Moderna should question a booster six months aft the earlier vaccination series was completed.

The eligibility rules for Pfizer and Moderna recipients are the same. If you were initially vaccinated with Moderna oregon Pfizer, you are eligible for a booster dose six months aft your past dose if you conscionable astatine slightest 1 of the pursuing criteria:

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Mixing of vaccine brands is allowed; you are permitted to get a booster dose of Moderna, Pfizer, oregon Johnson & Johnson, careless of which vaccine you received initially.

Not each wellness section has each marque of COVID-19 vaccine, truthful we promote residents to cheque our scheduling website, chdcovidvax.org, to spot which vaccines are disposable astatine each location. If you request assistance with scheduling, you whitethorn telephone our COVID-19 Vaccine Call Center astatine 912-230-5506. The telephone halfway is unfastened Monday done Thursday from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., and Friday from 8 a.m.-2 p.m.

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