COVID VACCINES 2025

Is COVID really still a thing in 2025?

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1. Counselling Conundrum: a real question from a patient

2. Concise Conclusion: a straight-forward patient-friendly answer 

3. Quick Wrap-up 

Clearly, there are nuances that may not be captured in this format. The goal here is to provide you with helpful counselling tips which often draw from multiple sources or those which are not commonly accessed by busy healthcare providers serving the community.

Counselling Conundrum: "I'm a healthy 25 year old man, and I work from home. Should I still be getting my COVID vaccine?"

Concise Conclusion: Great question! Current guidelines say that you MAY receive it, if you personally feel you'd like to reduce your risk of long COVID, hospitalization, and other related complications. In contrast, patients at high risk SHOULD receive the vaccine.

Quick Wrap-up: Keep the following pearls in your back pocket:

-high risk includes 65yo+, LTC/group home, certain chronic conditions, pregnant, First Nations and related communities, healthcare workers, racialized/equity-denied communities,

-2 boosters (fall + spring) is recommended for 80yo+, LTC/group home and immunocompromised

-mRNA vaccines do not "alter your genes"; there is mRNA already in your body

-Comirnaty (Pfizer) and Spikevax (Moderna) are interchangeable

-there are now prefilled syringes; ensure you review stability information for all forms of the COVID vaccine

-myocarditis is much less of an issue now that we know to separate the primary series more than before (at one point it was merely 2 weeks apart)

Dive Deeper

1) naci-statement-2025-01-10

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