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Getting the COVID-19 vaccine can: help reduce your risk of getting severe symptoms. help you recover more quickly if you catch COVID-19. help reduce your risk of having to go to hospital or dying from COVID-19. protect against different types of COVID-19 virus.
Sep 23, 2024 · Adults aged 65 and over, long-term care home patients and people in clinical risk groups are all eligible for the COVID and flu vaccines - as are frontline social care workers and people providing ...
- Introduction
- Who This Guidance Is For
- Keeping Yourself Safe
- Covid-19 Vaccines
- Covid-19 Treatments
- Covid-19 Testing
- If You Test Positive
- If You Test Negative and You Still Feel Unwell
The success of the COVID-19 vaccination programme has meant that the requirement for shielding and identifying people as clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) is no longer necessary. Most people who were part of this CEV patient cohort are no longer at substantially greater risk than the general population and are advised to follow the same guidanc...
Immunosuppression means you have a weakened immune system due to a particular health condition or because you are on medication or treatment that suppresses your immune system. People who are immunosuppressed, or who have specific other medical conditions, may have a reduced ability to fight infections and other diseases, including COVID-19. Most p...
The following advice on ‘keeping yourself safe’ is aimed at adults. Children and young people are recommended to continue to attend education, unless they are advised otherwise by their clinician. Attending education is hugely important for children and young people’s health and their future. If you have been advised by the NHS that you are in one ...
If you have a weakened immune system due to a health condition or medical treatment, and you are aged 6 months or over, you are eligible for a COVID-19 vaccination this springif it has been at least 3 months since your last vaccination. This is to help improve any protection you may have built from previous vaccination or infection. By having a fur...
The NHS is offering treatments to those people with COVID-19 who are at highest risk of becoming seriously ill and who are aged 12 years or above. Not all treatments are suitable for people aged 12 to 17 years. The list of eligible people who are offered these treatments is regularly reviewed and is available on the NHSE and GOV.UKwebsites. The lis...
In England, patients eligible for COVID-19 treatments can access free LFDtests. If you are eligible for COVID-19 treatments, please make sure you have a supply of LFD tests at home so that you can test yourself quickly if you develop symptoms of COVID-19. You can now obtain free LFD tests from your local pharmacy. You can also use tests you’ve paid...
If you test positive, you should try to stay at home and avoid contact with other people. Further advice about staying at home can be found in guidance for people with symptoms of a respiratory infection including COVID-19. If you are eligible for treatment, it’s important to start as soon as you can. To be effective, treatments for COVID-19 need t...
If your test is negative but you still have symptoms, you should take another test on each of the next 2 days (3 tests in total over 3 days). If you continue to feel unwell, you should seek healthcare advice via your GP or NHS 111. If it is an emergency, you should call 999.
Feb 4, 2021 · About one in three people recently given a Covid vaccine by the NHS report some side-effects. None was serious - a common one was some soreness around the injection site, the UK researchers who...
Dec 9, 2020 · The Pfizer vaccine cuts cases of Covid by about 95%, but it does have very common side-effects including pain from the injection, headache, chills and muscle pain. These could affect more than...
Dec 17, 2021 · Vaccines help teach the body how to fight Covid. But the current ones in use were not designed to combat the heavily-mutated Omicron variant, meaning they are not a perfect match.
Feb 15, 2022 · What's in the Covid vaccines? Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine (and Moderna's) uses bits of genetic code to cause an immune response. These are called mRNA vaccines. They do not alter human cells, but...
