Your questions, answered Can we take the flu vaccine and the coronavirus vaccine at the same time? — Gail F., Hawaii "The answer is an unequivocal yes," said Kelly Moore, a preventive medicine specialist and CEO of the vaccine education and advocacy nonprofit Immunize.org. That is true of every other routine vaccine, she said. They can all be administered at the same time as the mRNA vaccines or the new Novavax vaccine, which is worth keeping in mind as we move into fall and flu season. Some people are hesitant to get multiple vaccines at the same time, particularly if they worry about their reactions to shots, including pain in the injection site. You might want to consider getting those shots in different arms, Moore said. But think twice before spreading the shots out. Remember the added burden (and expense) of making two trips to your health-care provider or pharmacy. "The longer people wait, the longer time they are at risk," Moore said. One caveat: There is a documented risk of myocarditis with one of two monkeypox vaccines, ACAM2000. Because the mRNA coronavirus vaccines also have a very small risk of myocarditis — much smaller than with ACAM2000 — and the other monkeypox vaccine, JYNNEOS, is new, the CDC recommends a four-week wait after vaccination with either of those vaccines before getting an mRNA vaccine. This is particularly the case for adolescent or young adult men, who have been found to be at greater risk for myocarditis, the swelling of the heart muscle, from the mRNA vaccines. "It might be a good idea to wait 4 weeks after a monkeypox vaccination to get a COVID-19 vaccine," Moore wrote in an email. "However, if you are told you need a monkey pox vaccine because you're at risk now, you should not delay that monkeypox vaccine even if you just had a COVID-19 vaccine." | 
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