Vaccines for Adults

• COVID-19: Get an updated COVID-19 vaccine if you have not been vaccinated with the 2024-2025 vaccine. People aged 65 years and older should receive two doses. If you are immunocompromised talk to your health care provider about the need for additional doses.
• Influenza (flu): Get a flu vaccine every year.
• Tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis (Tdap): Get one dose of Tdap vaccine if you did not get it as an adolescent. Then, get Tdap or Td (tetanus-diphtheria) vaccine every 10 years after that.
• Varicella (chickenpox): If you never had chickenpox and were never vaccinated against it, you need two doses of varicella vaccine.
• Hepatitis B: All people 19-59 years of age and people 60 and older with risk factors should receive the hepatitis B vaccine. People 60 years of age and older without known risk factors may also receive the hepatitis B vaccine. Talk to your health care provider.
• Human papillomavirus (HPV): Catch-up vaccination is recommended for everyone through 26 years of age. For most people it means a total of three doses. Check with your health care provider.
• Measles-mumps-rubella (MMR): If you were born in 1957 or later, you need at least one dose of MMR. Those going to or working at a school or institute of higher education, travelers, and health care workers need two doses.
• Zoster (shingles): People 50 years or older need two doses.
• Pneumococcal: Everyone 50 years and older needs pneumococcal vaccination. The type and number of doses will be determined by your health care provider.
• Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV): All people 75 years of age and older or those 60-74 years of age who are at risk for severe disease should receive RSV vaccine.

Pregnancy and Vaccination
Immunization information for pregnant people from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

• Tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis (Tdap): Get a Tdap during every pregnancy. Tdap is typically given during the third trimester, so it benefits your baby.
  • Tdap Vaccine for Pregnant People
• Influenza: It can be given anytime during pregnancy. It will also protect your baby.
  • Pregnant? Get a Flu Shot
• COVID-19: Get an updated COVID-19 vaccine if you have not been vaccinated with the 2024-2025 vaccine.
  • About COVID-19 Vaccine: Who should get vaccinated; Pregnant or breastfeeding people
• RSV: There are two ways to protect your baby from getting very sick with RSV. You can either:
  • Get RSV vaccine during weeks 32 through 36 of your pregnancy between September through January*.
    OR
  • Have your baby 8 months of age or younger receive RSV immunization (nirsevimab) between October through March of their first RSV season.

*Pregnant people who received RSV vaccine in a previous pregnancy should not get another dose. Instead, their baby should receive nirsevimab after delivery to protect them against RSV disease.

Adults living with certain health conditions or other special situations are at increased risk for some vaccine preventable diseases and have special immunization recommendations, such as for hepatitis A, hepatitis B, meningococcal, pneumococcal, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and/or shingles vaccines. Refer to CDC: What Vaccines are Recommended for You for more information and talk to your health care provider about what vaccines you need.

Recommended Vaccines for Health Care Personnel
Information on what vaccines are recommended for people who work in health care settings. This includes hospital volunteers and others who may not have direct contact with patients.

If you’re traveling outside the United States, you may need to be vaccinated against COVID-19, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, influenza, Japanese encephalitis, measles, mumps, meningococcal, rabies, rubella, typhoid, or yellow fever. Refer to Immunization Information for International Travelers and talk to your health care provider about where you're traveling.

• CDC: Vaccines by Age
  Learn more about the vaccines recommended for adults and why they need them.
• CDC: The Adult Vaccine Assessment Tool
  Answer a few questions to generate a list of the vaccines you may need based on your responses. Discuss the list of vaccines with your health care provider.
• Diseases Prevented by Vaccines
  Learn more about disease prevented by vaccines.