Massachusetts has updated covid vaccine guidance

[redbird]

I am happy to see that "should receive" the covid vaccine or booster includes infants; children and adolescents who haven't already been vaccinated; anyone with a medical condition that puts them at higher risk of severe covid; and all household contacts of anyone at higher risk.

Everyone aged 65 or older should receive two doses, six months apart.

All healthcare workers "should" receive the vaccine, as should anyone who is pregnant, contemplating pregnancy, or has recently been pregnant, and a few other groups.

Everyone else "may receive" it.

https://www.mass.gov/doc/massachusetts-2025-2026-respiratory-illness-season-covid-19-vaccine-recommendations/download

What I saw is Massachusetts-specific, but it says it is aligned with the recommendations of the new Northeast Public Health Collaborative, which includes New England except for New Hampshire, plus New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.

Comments

[lisajulie]

Colorado, where I live, has mandated that any person over the age of 6 months is eligible to receive the booster. Costco near me and Kaiser are offering COVID boosters and flu shots on a walk in basis.

[adrian_turtle]

Our dear neighbors at the Brookline Senior Center are offering free high-dose flu vaccines on 9/30. (You have to pre-register and be over 65. I'm not sure if you have to be a town resident.) It would be sensible to offer covid vaccines when you have a high-risk population sitting there already rolling up their sleeves, but the best they can do is say they are allowed to get it at pharmacies.

ETA: I want everyone to be vaccinated, of course, but I have a particular interest in the people of Brookline because because they are 3 blocks away and we breathe on each other.