influenza virus

Flu Shot Versus COVID Shot: Why Your Child Should Receive Both

Catherine Thriveni, M.D., Contributing WriterJanuary 27, 2022

If the child is eligible, both vaccines can and should be given for the health and safety of the child. The flu shot can be given at the same time as the COVID vaccine, or any time before or after. There is no evidence that timing of when these two vaccines are given affects the efficacy of either one.

Black Woman, Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, Developed the Scientific Approach to the Coronavirus Vaccine

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National CorrespondentDecember 24, 2020

“The very vaccine that’s one of the two that has absolutely exquisite levels – 94 to 95 percent efficacy against clinical disease and almost 100 percent efficacy against serious disease that are shown to be clearly safe – that vaccine was actually developed in my institute’s vaccine research center by a team of scientists led by Dr. Barney Graham and his close colleague, Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, or Kizzy Corbett,” Dr. Fauci stated.