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Vaccination recommendations, precautions, or contraindications for special groups

Is COVID-19 vaccination safe and recommended for people who have a heart condition?

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9/20/2022

Vaccines are safe, effective and should be provided to people with chronic heart disease (CHD), independent of the cause and the severity of the cardiologic disease. This includes people with coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, peripheral arterial disease, rheumatic heart disease, congenital heart disease, deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, and heart transplant recipients.

People with CHD have a greater risk of being hospitalized, requiring intensive care, intubation and/or ventilation and of dying from COVID-19. Because of this increased morbidity and mortality, it is important that these individuals, their household contacts and healthcare providers receive COVID-19 vaccination. There is no evidence to suggest that COVID-19 vaccines have any negative impact on a person who has CHD.

Current COVID-19 vaccines continue to exhibit strong protection against severe disease and death across all virus variants seen to date. Therefore, reaching high coverage with the primary vaccination series and additional doses among all eligible people, especially the most vulnerable, remains a priority.

Medically stable patients with CHD should be considered for COVID-19 vaccination without interruption of their treatment.

Patients with CHD will benefit from extended protection against both COVID-19 and influenza disease by co-administration of COVID-19 vaccines and seasonal influenza vaccines, whenever feasible.

Individuals who have had COVID-19 still benefit from vaccination against the disease because a combination of naturally acquired and vaccine-induced immunity is likely to offer greater protection against re-infection.

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