A study published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine reported that people 65 years and older who got Fluzone High-Dose (a previously available trivalent high-dose vaccine) had a lower risk of hospitalization compared with people in that age group who got the standard dose, especially those living in long-term care facilities. What’s more, research published in The New England Journal of Medicine found it to be more effective in preventing flu in adults 65 years and older relative to a standard-dose vaccine.
Fluzone High-Dose Quadrivalent is an injectable vaccine that contains four times the antigen (the flu proteins that our immune system recognizes and attacks) of a standard-dose inactivated flu vaccine, to help create a stronger immune response.What you need: While experts say a standard flu shot is certainly better than no flu shot, the CDC is now recommending that adults 65 and older - a group at higher risk of complications from an influenza infection - opt for a high-dose version. And so the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends rolling up your sleeve by the end of October, since it takes about two weeks after a vaccination for flu-fighting antibodies to develop in the body. “Researchers try to predict what will be the most common strain that season, then reformulate the vaccine accordingly.”įlu season typically begins in October and ends in March, though experts predict it could hit earlier this year. “The virus itself changes every year,” Katz says. Who needs it: All adults, no matter the age. And most health insurance plans will pick up the tab. That said, if you think you could be in that tiny minority, ask your doctor about getting the chicken pox vaccine as an adult.įor the rest of the list, you can get your necessary shots at doctors’ offices, pharmacies, workplaces, community health clinics and other locations. “Almost all adults over 40 have been exposed to chicken pox,” she adds, noting that it would be “an extremely rare case” for an adult not to have been. Anyone born before 1957 wouldn’t need a measles vaccine because the disease was so prevalent when they grew up that immunity as an adult is assumed.Ĭhicken pox is similar in that most adults already have immunity from childhood exposure to the disease, Katz says. What you won’t see on the list? Measles and chicken pox vaccines. And there are a few new pneumococcal vaccines on the market that go hand-in-hand with updated recommendations for older adults.īelow you’ll find the vaccinations every adult needs, followed by two - for hepatitis A and B - that you need only if you have certain risk factors. One of them is Shingrix, the amazingly effective shingles vaccine.
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