Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone has announced that the Suffolk County Department of Health Services received 200 doses of the updated Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech bivalent boosters and will be administering them next week at the H. Lee Dennison Building in Hauppauge on Monday, September 12, and Thursday, September 15, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
“We are excited that we now have updated vaccines that will help protect our residents from the newer variants that have been circulating,” said County Executive Steve Bellone. “It is clear that the COVID-19 vaccines have helped to reduce hospital and ICU admissions throughout the country. We need to continue to lead the way in keeping our vaccination rates high and hospitalizations as low as possible.”
Dr. Gregson Pigott, Suffolk County Health Commissioner said: “As the virus that causes COVID-19 changes, so must the tools we use to fight the virus and its latest variants. COVID-19 vaccines and boosters continue to be the most effective tools we have to reduce the risk of hospitalization and death from COVID and complications due to COVID.”
Individuals 18 years of age and older are eligible for a single booster dose of the new Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, bivalent if it has been at least two months since they have completed primary vaccination or have received the most recent booster dose with any authorized or approved monovalent COVID-19 vaccine.
Individuals 12 years of age and older are eligible for a single booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, bivalent if it has been at least two months since they have completed primary vaccination or have received the most recent booster dose with any authorized or approved monovalent COVID-19 vaccine.
Individuals ages 5 through 11 who have completed Pfizer-BioNTech’s primary vaccine series should continue to receive the company’s original monovalent booster at least 5 months after their most recent dose.
Children ages 6 months through 4 years are currently not authorized for any COVID-19 booster doses.
For more information, visit www.suffolkcountyny.gov/vaccine.
To register for the Updated Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech Booster Doses please visit, https://vax4.suffolkcountyny.gov OR call 311.
