Pfizer Booster Shots Available To Those Eligible In Queen Anne’s County

QUEEN ANNE’S COUNTY, Md. (WJZ) — The Queen Anne’s County Department of Health made an updated announcement connected who is eligible for a booster changeable of the COVID-19 vaccine Monday.

Additional doses of the Moderna oregon Pfizer Vaccine are considered for residents that person an immune-compromised owed to a aesculapian information oregon treatment.

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People successful this radical include:

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• Been receiving progressive crab attraction for tumors oregon cancers of the blood
• Received an organ transplant and are taking medicine to suppress the immune system
• Received a stem compartment transplant wrong the past 2 years oregon are taking medicine to suppress the immune system
• Moderate oregon terrible superior immunodeficiency (such arsenic DiGeorge syndrome, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome)
• Advanced oregon untreated HIV infection
• Active attraction with high-dose corticosteroids oregon different drugs that whitethorn suppress your immune effect (i.e., >20mg prednisone/day), alkylating agents, antimetabolites, transplant-related immunosuppressive drugs, chemotherapeutic agents classified arsenic severely immunosuppressive, TNF blockers, and different biologic agents that are immunosuppressive

Those that suffice tin docket their 3rd dose with the Queen Anne’s County Health Department. The 3rd dose indispensable beryllium the aforesaid marque received during your archetypal vaccination and further doses cannot beryllium fixed sooner than 28 days aft the archetypal vaccination.

Booster shots are disposable for those that received Pfizer during their archetypal vaccine bid astatine slightest six months agone and:

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• People 65 years and older and residents of semipermanent attraction settings,
• People aged 50-64 years with underlying aesculapian conditions,
• People aged 18-49 years with underlying aesculapian conditions based connected their idiosyncratic benefits and risks, and
• People aged 18-64 years who are astatine accrued hazard for COVID-19 vulnerability and transmission due to the fact that of occupational oregon organization mounting based connected their idiosyncratic risk.

To docket your archetypal COVID-19 vaccine, an further dose of Moderna oregon Pfizer oregon a booster of Pfizer, sojourn covidvax.maryland.gov and hunt by zip codification 21617 and click connected Health Departments, QAC Health Department “Schedule an Appointment.”

CBS Baltimore Staff