Vaccinations

[Bazile]

Are the Flu and coronavirus vaccines , live vaccines ?

[Barsel]

Bazile, I believe just the Coronavirus one is a live vaccine.

[davebro]

I don't think either are live as injections. The flu nasal vaccine is "live attenuated".

Of course there are different versions of the covid vaccine - the info with my Moderna2 booster said "does not contain covid-19" or words to that effect.

[bobbinwales]

Covid vax ... no defo not.
Flu... attenuated...sort of live

[bobbinwales]

A range of opposite answers here.
Best to look on gov nhs website

[Buenchico]

The only live vaccines (or, more strictly, 'attenuated live vaccines') routinely used in the UK are for . . .
Rotavirus
MMR
Flu (nasal only, NOT the injected version) and
Shingles.

On top of that, attenuated live vaccines are given to people in specific groups for
Chichen Pox and
TB (the BCG vaccine).

The only other attenuated live vaccines used in the UK are for those travelling abroad, in respect of
Yellow Fever and
Typhoid (oral only,NOT the injected version).

The Pfizer BioNTech and the Moderna Covid vaccines are both RNA vaccines.

The AstraZenica Covid vaccine is a non-replicating viral vector vaccine.

The nasal (attenuated live) vaccine for flu is only used with children between 2 and 10 years. All other flu vaccines are from a range of quadrivalent types.

Source: The University of Oxford Vaccine Knowledge Project.
https://vk.ovg.ox.ac.uk/vk/types-of-vaccine