Interactions with other vaccines for Comirnaty
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From: Erika Whittome
Dear Health New Zealand,
I am requesting the information on interactions with other vaccines for the Covid-19 Pfizer Comirnaty vaccine .
Deborah Kay-Corkin, Southern DHB’s Measles Campaign Coordinator said on page 31
“There are no additional safety concerns with having additional MMR doses, and
you can also safely have your MMR vaccine at the same time as your COVID-19
vaccine,”
on info supplied to Radio New Zealand https://fyi.org.nz/request/32329/respons...
Kindly share this information, because I can only locate the Medsafe Risk Management plan which says "missing information Interaction with other vaccines " https://www.medsafe.govt.nz/COVID-19/Com...
Yours faithfully,
Erika Whittome
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From: Erika Whittome
Dear hnzOIA,
You have shared a web page which says:
Spacing with other vaccines
National immunisation schedule vaccines: all can be given at the same time as the Comirnaty 30mcg JN.1 grey cap vaccine, preferably in a different limb.
However, I am requesting the information on *interactions* with other vaccines for the Covid-19 Pfizer Comirnaty vaccine.
I am not requesting the 'advice' from an Immunization advisory center that all can be given at the same time. I am requesting the information on the interactions with other vaccines which is not on the page you shared.
Kindly supply the information on the interactions with other vaccines. As quoted earlier, Medsafe stated this was missing information in their risk management plan and still say it's missing as of today's version here https://www.medsafe.govt.nz/COVID-19/Com...
Yours sincerely,
Erika Whittome
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