HSE covid booster

FROM today (Wednesday), the HSE is inviting people aged 60 years and over and pregnant women to make an appointment for their booster dose at www.hse.ie, ...

Eileen Whelan, national lead, Covid-19 Vaccine Programme, HSE, said: “Over the next few weeks, boosters will be offered to people aged 50 to 64, and people with long-term health conditions. “I encourage everyone aged 60 and over and pregnant women to get their next booster dose. The HSE also strongly urges people who have not yet received a primary Covid-19 vaccine dose to consider attending one of the walk-in clinics for dose one or dose two of the vaccine, or to register for an appointment

People aged 50-64 and people with long-term health conditions will also be offered booster vaccines over the coming weeks.

Letterkenny/Milford “Over the next few weeks, boosters will be offered to people aged 50-64, and people with long term health conditions. I encourage everyone aged 60 and over and pregnant women, to get their next booster dose.

The HSE's chief clinical officer has appealed for people to come forward and get vaccinated as the Covid booster programme was extended to people aged 60 ...

“Even for the first booster we see figures as large as 78pc, for this most recent campaign, the second booster is a bit more disappointing process which is perhaps understandable as the fear passes and people’s sense of the pandemic is no longer a threat,” he said. “Now they’re advising an extension of that to those 50 and over or those aged between 12 and 49 with underlying conditions. “What we do see, however, is a waning of immunity against infection from Covid-19 and that’s why NIAC issued their most recent advice urging an extension of this what we call a second booster which was originally advised for those aged 65 and over or those aged 12 and older with immune system problems,” he told RTÉ’s Morning Ireland.

People aged 50-64 and people with long-term health conditions will be offered booster vaccines over the coming weeks; Boosters give protection against ...

For people aged 30 and over, you will be offered a single dose of an mRNA vaccine (Pfizer BioNTech or Moderna) vaccine. Over the next few weeks, boosters will be offered to people aged 50-64, and people with long term health conditions. I encourage everyone aged 60 and over and pregnant women, to get their next booster dose. You can check the date of your last booster on your digital COVID-19 certificate. You can get these vaccines even if you got a different type vaccine for your primary course (AstraZeneca, Janssen, Pfizer or Moderna). For people aged 16 to 29 years, you will be offered a single dose of Pfizer BioNTech vaccine. Please bring a photo ID with you.