RSV, Flu Vaccine Safe For Older Adults When Given Together, Study Finds

Healio (12/1, Stulpin) reports, “When given together, Pfizer’s respiratory syncytial virus vaccine and the seasonal influenza vaccine generated robust immune responses and were well tolerated among older adults when coadministered, data from a recent study showed.” Additionally, “the study also showed that immune responses to both Pfizer’s RSV vaccine and the seasonal influenza vaccine were noninferior when the vaccines were given at the same time compared with when the vaccines were given 1 month apart.” The findings were published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.