City Of Fairfax: Pfizer COVID-19 Booster Doses Widely Available In Fairfax Health District

Press release from the City of Fairfax :

09/27/2021 3:00 PM

Beginning Tuesday, Sept. 28, the Fairfax County Health Department will begin providing booster shots of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to individuals who meet new CDC guidelines for a booster dose.

The CDC has outlined four groups of people who are newly eligible to receive a booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine:

The recommendations from the CDC and VDH do not include individuals who received the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccines. Anyone who received Moderna or J&J COVID-19 vaccine should not seek an additional booster dose of Pfizer vaccine, and should wait for future recommendations from the CDC and VDH.

Booster doses are available for eligible people from pharmacies, medical providers, hospitals and the Fairfax County Health Department. Go to vaccines.gov to make an appointment. Individuals seeking a booster dose, are reminded to bring their vaccine card to confirm the date and type of vaccine they received in previous dose(s).

Walk-in hours are available from our Health Department during the following days/hours:

The health department sites will provide Pfizer-BioNTech booster shots, in addition to first and second doses of Pfizer-Bio-NTech vaccine. The health department encourages all eligible persons to get their COVID-19 vaccine if they haven’t already done so.

For a complete listing of COVID-19 vaccine providers in the Fairfax Health District, visit vaccines.gov.

The Fairfax Health District includes the City of Fairfax, the City of Falls Church, the Town of Herndon, and Fairfax County.

This press release was produced by the City of Fairfax. The views expressed here are the author’s own.