Should you get more than one vaccine at a time? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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It’s probably not high on your fun list to go and get vaccinated, so can more than one vaccine be given at a time so you can minimize the number of visits you need? Yes, says Anna Durbin, a vaccine expert at Johns Hopkins.

Durbin: You can get these different vaccines together be aware you may have a little bit more reactogenicity together. If you've had those where you feel a little bit feverish, a little myalgia, little muscle ache, fatigue. If you've had that with the previous either flu shots or COVID shots I do recommend that people take a Motrin or Tylenol couple hours after vaccination to help make that feel better. One of the things that you're feeling really is your immune response kicking into gear and generating the protection that you're going to need for the vaccines.  :31

Durbin says it’s a good idea to talk with your provider where you get vaccinated since you may experience more side effects with certain vaccines and won’t want to combine them, but many of them can be given without making side effects worse. At Johns Hopkins, I’m Elizabeth Tracey.