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Vaccines are critical tools in the health care arsenal, with a long, successful history of fighting or eradicating disease. Vaccines have saved more lives around the world than any other medical invention.
- Vaccines provide a safe and effective means of countering threats to personal health and military readiness.
- Protect your children, protect yourself. Stay up to date.
- Talk to your pediatrician and primary care provider and get vaccinated today.
- Clusters of unvaccinated and undervaccinated children can lead to outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases.
- Check your COVID-19 vaccination status when going for routine vaccine assessments.
- Vaccines aren’t just for children. Many colleges, universities, and technical schools require vaccines. Make sure you are up to date and have a record of all required vaccines.
- Some vaccine-preventable diseases remain common in the United States. Unvaccinated people exposed to these diseases can be at risk for a serious case of the disease that might cause hospitalization or death.
- Young children have the highest risk of a serious case of disease. Delaying or spreading out vaccine doses leaves your child unprotected during the time when they most need protection.
- Even young children cared for at home can be exposed to vaccine preventable diseases, so it’s important to get all their vaccines at the recommended ages.
- If your child misses some scheduled vaccine doses, there is no need to restart a vaccine series no matter how much time passed between doses.
- Talk to your child’s health care provider about the best and quickest way to get up to date.
- Immunizing your child protects against serious diseases like measles, whooping cough, polio, tetanus, rotavirus, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, chickenpox, influenza, and more.
- It’s important to save and update your child’s vaccine records. You’ll likely need to provide them when you register your child for school, childcare, or an athletic team.
- If you get most care at military hospitals or clinics, you’ll have a DOD electronic health record.
- Depending on your separation date, your record should be available via your Patient Portal, either TRICARE Online or MHS GENESIS.
- Everyone aged six years and older should get an updated Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, regardless of whether they’ve received any original COVID-19 vaccines.
- People aged 65 years and older may get a second dose of updated Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
- People who are moderately or severely immunocompromised may get additional doses of updated the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
- Children from six months to five years old may need multiple doses of COVID-19 vaccine to be up to date, including at least one dose of updated Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, depending on how many doses they’ve previously received and their age.
- COVID-19 vaccine recommendations will be updated as needed.
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