It’s vaccination season, which for most people means getting immunized for flu and COVID-19 (and RSV for infants, pregnant women, or people 75 and older).
Public-health officials have said before that getting the two shots at the same time is safe, but some people have remained worried about receiving both vaccines together. Now, a new study confirms that safety. In what the researchers say is the first randomized, placebo-controlled trial analyzing the side effects of the co-administration of the vaccines in the U.S., they found no difference among people who received the COVID-19 and flu shots simultaneously in different arms and those who got the shots spaced apart by a week or two.