Booster after initial Moderna jabs?

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Per the title - I had Moderna as my vaccine, and am booked to get the booster next weekend. I don’t know anyone else my age (40s) who had Moderna, and everyone I know has had it for their booster after initial AZ or Pfizer.

Does anyone know what I am likely to get as a booster? More Moderna?

Whatever the centre has the day you go. There's many many times more Pfizer doses available than the country than Moderna, so the statistical likelihood is that you'll get Pfizer.

Thanks for replying. I think I had somehow got it in my head that it was supposed to be a different vaccine for the booster, and here the boosters all seem to be Moderna.

I have been wondering this too as I also had Moderna. Here, my local centre is only offering Moderna for boosters but not my turn yet and may be different on that day. I don't think it needs to be a different one.

I had Moderna and have a Pfizer booster booked this weekend so I will find out then if it is ‘allowed’ or not!

Where I live (EU country) 90% of boosters seem to be Moderna. I’m under 30 so will be getting Pfizer as per the vaccine commission’s recommendation, but just yesterday the health senator put out a call for people to voluntarily ask for Moderna. Apparently they’ve received a lot of it in the last two weeks and now have a surplus.

It doesn’t need to be a different vaccine. The higher effectiveness when mixing jabs has been showed in the AZ + mRNA combo.

I dont have specific experience but I do know my elderly dad had pfizer as his initial 2 vaccines and then also had pfizer as his booster. So I dont think it matters if you have the same vaccine.

I think it’s been said it’s ok to mix with a different vaccine for the booster not that you have to.

I had moderna and got moderna booster, it’s the only shot I had some side effects. Headache for 3 days and my lymph nodes on the shot side swelled up and were very sore for 5 days.