I know this comes up every year. On the advice of the Macmillan telephone nurse advice line last year, I have been working on a 10days/2 week gap between the vaccines and the start or end of BCG. I had my flu jab 21 days and the Covid booster 12 days before my first BCG.
I have just returned from my second BCG in the current series. I was a bit surprised when the CNS started asking whether I had received Covid booster and flu jabs. She told me that they'd had a meeting that morning when they agreed that the current advice should be to wait 6 weeks before a BCG. A bit late!, I thought.
I thought this might be a useful reminder to any others who are to have the jabs and BCG to check with their CNS asap.
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