COVID-19 Booster Information for Patients

Important information for EBCAP PATIENTS regarding COVID-19 booster doses –

CDC recommends everyone stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccination, including all primary series doses and boosters for their age group:

-People ages 6 months through 4 years should get all COVID-19 primary series doses.
-People ages 5 years and older should get all primary series doses, and the booster dose recommended for them by CDC, if eligible.
-People ages 5 years to 11 years are currently recommended to get the original (monovalent) booster.
-People ages 12 years and older are recommended to receive one updated Pfizer or Moderna (bivalent) booster. This includes people who have received all primary series doses and people who have previously received one or more original (monovalent) boosters.
-At this time, people aged 12 years to 17 years can only receive the updated Pfizer bivalent booster.
–In order to be eligible it must be at least 2 months since primary series or last monovalent booster was administered.