COVID-19 vaccines are safe if you have been sick with COVID-19. You can get vaccinated as soon as your isolation period is over and your symptoms are gone. You should not get vaccinated while sick or during your isolation period to avoid spreading the virus to others.

Visit CDC’s Interim Clinical Considerations for Use of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines Currently Authorized in the United States for more information at https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/info-by-product/clinical-considerations.html.

For more information on the difference between isolation and quarantine, please visit https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/index.html.