Central Primary Care encourages everyone eligible to get primary series COVID-19 vaccines and boosters. When you're fully vaccinated, you have a lower risk of severe illness, hospitalization, and death from COVID-19. Updated COVID-19 boosters can help restore protection that has decreased since your previous vaccination. The updated boosters also provide added protection against the newer, highly contagious Omicron subvariants. And remember: Getting a COVID-19 vaccine after you recover from COVID-19 infection provides added protection against COVID-19 reinfection, and may potentially reduce the risk of developing Long Covid.

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You are up to date with your COVID-19 vaccines if you have completed a COVID-19 vaccine primary series and received the most recent booster dose recommended for you by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC). As of the fall of 2022, four COVID-19 vaccines, which include primary series and boosters, are recommended in the United States. 

 

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

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* 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, 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)

 

Note: According to the CDC's guidelines, people who are moderately or severely immunocompromised have specific recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines, including boosters. Please consult our physicians for more information.