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CONTACT INFORMATION: Our administration office at 10777 Main Street in Fairfax is open during regular business hours 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Monday - Friday. Clinic services are not offered at this location.

703-246-2411 TTY 711

health@fairfaxcounty.gov

10777 Main Street
Fairfax, VA 22030

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Gloria Addo-Ayensu, M.D., M.P.H.
Director of Health

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Stay Up to Date with Your COVID-19 Vaccines

The updated COVID-19 vaccine for the 2024-2025 respiratory season is recommended by the CDC. See details.

COVID-19 vaccines available in the Unites States are safe and effective at protecting people from severe illness, hospitalization, and death.

Everyone ages 6 months and older should get the 2024–2025 COVID-19 vaccine. This includes people who have received a COVID-19 vaccine before and people who have had COVID-19.

As with other vaccines, you are protected best from COVID-19 when you stay up to date with the recommended vaccinations. People who are up to date have a lower risk of severe illness, hospitalization and death from COVID-19 than people who are unvaccinated or who have not completed the doses recommended for them by CDC.

What You Need to Know

The FDA approved and authorized the 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccines on August 22, 2024. FDA authorized Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted (2024 – 2025 Formula) under Emergency Use Authorization on August 30, 2024.
Vaccines are available in the Fairfax Health District. Learn more about finding a vaccine.
Getting the 2024–2025 COVID-19 vaccine is important because:
- Protection from the COVID-19 vaccine decreases with time.
- COVID-19 vaccines are updated to give you the best protection from the currently circulating strains.
Getting the 2024–2025 COVID-19 vaccine is especially important if you:
- Never received a COVID-19 vaccine
- Are ages 65 years and older
- Are at high risk for severe COVID-19
- Are living in a long-term care facility
- Are pregnant, breastfeeding, trying to get pregnant, or might become pregnant in the future.
- Want to lower your risk of getting Long COVID
After vaccination, continue to follow all current respiratory virus prevention measures.

See Detailed Guidance About When You Are Up to Date

Benefits of Getting Vaccinated

There are many benefits of getting vaccinated against COVID-19.

The COVID-19 vaccine helps protect you from severe disease, hospitalization, and death.
Getting a COVID-19 vaccine is a safer, more reliable way to build protection than getting sick with COVID-19. Vaccination remains the safest strategy for avoiding hospitalizations, long-term health outcomes, and death.

See Why You Should Get a Vaccine

Guidance for People Who are Immunocompromised

If you are moderately or severely immunocompromised (have a weakened immune system), you are at increased risk of severe COVID-19 illness and death. Additionally, your immune response to COVID-19 vaccination may not be as strong as in people who are not immunocompromised.

People who are moderately or severely immunocompromised have different recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines.

SEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE IMMUNOCOMPROMISED

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Stay Up to Date with Your COVID-19 Vaccines

What You Need to Know

Benefits of Getting Vaccinated

Guidance for People Who are Immunocompromised

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