Health care workers and care home residents are to start receiving Covid boosters and autumn flu jabs from Monday as the autumn vaccination programme gets under way.
care workers and care home residents are to start receiving Covid boosters and autumn flu jabs from Monday as the autumn vaccination programme gets under way.have already been issued appointments, with the first in line receiving the inoculation today.
"This is the autumn booster for Covid and combined in many cases with flu so it is really important that people go for their appointment or make their appointment depending who they are." This rollout also marks the first time a bivalent vaccine, targeting two variants at once, will be issued to some Scots.
"We know the old vaccines, let's call them, still are absolutely fantastic. They are still doing really well, most of the"So whichever vaccine you're offered, anywhere in the world, is the one you should get."
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