Getting vaccinated in King County – King County

Schedule a second dose

When you are at your vaccination appointment, make an appointment for the second dose of the vaccine. You should get your second dose 21 days (Pfizer-BioNTech) or 28 days (Moderna) after the first dose. The second dose will provide full protection from the virus.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has created a tool, V-safe, to monitor vaccine safety. V-safe is a smartphone-based tool that uses text messaging and web surveys to provide personalized health check-ins after you get a COVID-19 vaccine. You can can quickly tell CDC if you have any side effects after getting the COVID-19 vaccine. CDC may follow up with you to get more information. V-safe will also remind you to get your second COVID-19 vaccine dose, if needed.

The vaccine will give you a high level of protection against infection, but the protection is not 100%. Also, we don't yet know how well the vaccine prevents people from spreading the virus. That means it's possible that someone who is vaccinated may get infectedeven if they don't get sick it's possible that they could still spread COVID-19 to others. Studies are in progress to answer this question.

Even after vaccination, protect others by continuing to wear masks, limit indoor activities outside of the home, avoid crowded indoor spaces, keep contacts with others brief and distanced, improve ventilation indoors, and wash your hands.

If you have a known exposure to someone with COVID-19, even if you have been vaccinated, you will still need to quarantine following Public Health protocols.

While experts learn more about the protection that COVID-19 vaccines provide in real-life conditions, our continued use of all COVID-19 precautions will help to end this pandemic.

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Getting vaccinated in King County - King County