[JTapner (OP)]

Hello,

Can we have the COVID-19 vaccines days after receiving the tetanus vaccine? or do we have to wait the 7 days?

[CliffordK]

Around here they asked you if you've had any other vaccines recently.  I don't remember the time period.  Perhaps 2 weeks.  I'm not sure why.  Other vaccines are routinely given at the same time.

I think one issue is they don't want reports of adverse issues being related to a different vaccination. 

Anyway, ask whoever is providing the vaccine what they recommend.

[set fair]

If the tetenus jab is urgent just have it, multi disease vaccines are common. If it's not urgent then wait a couple of weeks after the covid jab. There are side effects and risks to all medicine but having different vaccines close together isn't worrying. Travelling to Africa used to involve several jabs.

[evan_au]

The recommendation here is to have 2 weeks separation between the flu & COVID vaccines.

I don't think it is because they will interact with each other; it's so, if you get a reaction, they know which one to blame.

[CliffordK]

I think there are signs that 2021 is seeing an extraordinary reduction in several communicable diseases. 

The USA has just had one of the most mild flu seasons ever.

But, elsewhere, Polio is down a lot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_eradication#2021
https://polioeradication.org/polio-today/polio-now/wild-poliovirus-list/
https://polioeradication.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/weekly-polio-analyses-WPV-20210504.pdf

This article paints a bit of a pessimistic view of other diseases such as TB and Measles, but the reality is the numbers of diagnosed cases are down a lot in 2020/2021.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01022-x

While adults and children may get somewhat different vaccines, perhaps we should be doing a big push for global vaccinations concurrently with the COVID vaccines.  Or, have bring the family clinics, so the children get childhood vaccines and adults get COVID, and perhaps TB vaccines.

Perhaps boosters of other vaccines.

[evan_au]

I heard that flu notifications in Australia so far this year are around 250, compared to around 45,000 at the same point in the year, in pre-COVID 2019.

Social distancing and masks are effective at breaking the chain of infection for most diseases.

[CliffordK]

While adults and children may get somewhat different vaccines, perhaps we should be doing a big push for global vaccinations concurrently with the COVID vaccines.  Or, have bring the family clinics, so the children get childhood vaccines and adults get COVID, and perhaps TB vaccines.

Perhaps boosters of other vaccines.

I called it yesterday!!!

Today the US CDC is recommending that the Pfizer vaccine be given to children as young as 12 years old, and is also recommending vaccines be given on the same day as other "routine" vaccinations (for all ages).

The AAP recommends adolescents ages 12 and older get vaccinated against COVID-19 now that federal health officials have signed off on the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for these ages.
...
The CDC updated its clinical guidance for vaccine administration for all ages to say COVID-19 vaccines can be given on the same day as other routine vaccines instead of waiting 14 days. The move is intended to help boost rates of routine adolescent immunizations, which have seen a sharp decline during the pandemic leaving children vulnerable to myriad diseases.