Covid Booster Autumn 2025

Covid is still around so I would pay for a booster if I was in your position.
I am old enough and am immunosuppressed, so have mine booked for October 11th along with the flu jab..

Neither my DH nor I are eligible and we've been having the vaccination six-monthly for the past 3 years. We have to pay but given the damage that even symptom free Covid infection can do it's more than worth it in my view.

Not having anymore. They make me feel so ill. I’ll just have the flu jab like last year. If you want one- maybe if you ask the surgery if they have any left over, ask if they will give you one.

I should point out, I am not a medical person, so what I am posting here is just my own personal opinion.
I am 80 and I am taking up my surgery’s offer of the Covid vaccine.
Years ago, a doctor I trusted implicitly advised me to take advantage of any vaccines I was offered. This was all quite new then.
I did have a bit of an unpleasant reaction to my Covid jab last year. I felt as though I had flu, and the aches and pains weren’t pleasant. When I told my doctor, she said that if I had reacted in that way to just the jab, the real thing without the jab could make me very ill.
I had a similar adverse reaction to the Rabies jab years ago, which I had to have to do the job I was doing. The doctor I saw at the time said the same thing.
So, I shall be having everything they throw at me, and be very grateful to have the opportunity.
Each to his/her own obviously! This is just my take on it.

I have only had 4, stopped a few years ago tbh, we never to our knowledge caught the virus, DH had a bad reaction to his 3 rd on so doesn't want one either, we do have the flu jabs.

Are people still having this jab?
I never had it and wouldn’t. We are exposed to enough toxicity in everyday life, without injecting it into our bloodstream.

I’m not eligible this autumn, I’m 72 but do suffer from chest problems- how much would it cost to have it privately and where would I go to get it?

Overthemoongran

I’m not eligible this autumn, I’m 72 but do suffer from chest problems- how much would it cost to have it privately and where would I go to get it?

In our village pharmacy it’s £85 Overthemoon

I might pay, I had shingles yesterday, flu and pneumococcal booked.

Yes, I have heard that £85 is the cost of having it privately. A young family member has just had covid and has been very ill indeed. They are not up to date with boosters and this current strain of the virus has hit them very hard indeed. The virus certainly hasn't gone away.

If anyone pays to have a pneumonia jab at a chemist just be careful that it covers you properly. I paid for one but then thankfully was given one at our surgery which covered me for much more.

The Covid booster is only being offered to over 75s on the NHS this autumn, which is good news overall I think, because it means that the younger age groups who had it previously are now deemed less vulnerable to hospitalisation. Obviously if you are immunosuppressed but younger than 75 you are still eligible for the NHS booster.

I’m 70 and have been offered my Covid booster through the NHS booked through the NHS app with no mention of any charges. I’m not immunosuppressed.

Strange MissChateline, here is the guidance.
ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2025/06/26/whos-eligible-for-the-2025-covid-19-vaccine-or-autumn-booster/

I declined last year's Covid jab as I had caught it a few week's previously. I do get quite ill for two afterwards.

So, as I am under 75 this autumn I won't be eligible.

My husband has type 1 diabetes, pancreatic insufficiency and mild asthma but I am told that he is not "immuno supressed" so not eligible. When he gets a cold he gets it bad and always ends up with a chest infection and antibiotics.

Yet, a friend who has coeliac disease and very fit and healthy otherwise gets it.

Far fewer people are eligible for a free Autumn COVID booster than previously.
I was eligible previously and will still get a free flu jab (I am under 65). Even my friend with type 1 diabetes isn't eligible.
I think they're relying on herd immunity.

Gosh. I was sent an appointment for an injection which I have accepted but had to change the date. I haven't had it yesterday. Reading this thread made me wonder what this new jab is actually for!! I must check. I just blindly thought it must be something I need.

Yet not yesterday!

I am 70, so the NHS one is not available for me so I will pay for the Covid booster. I picked up a nasty bout of it after attending a large 21st birthday in June and it was not pleasant.
Our local Tesco pharmacy is offering them this year.
Google Pharmadoctor and it will show you which pharmacies near you give the booster.
I am, however, eligible for the NHS flu jab and the shingles one (which I have had).

My GP informed me they will not be vaccinating the over 75s with the Covid jab this year although my flu jab is booked with them

At 73 it's nice to know I'm too young and healthy to have one now!

I am thinking of having one privately though

My husband is 74 and had a stroke this year and three bleeds on the brain, he is having heart surgery in the next 2 months in order to prevent another stroke, but none of this is mentioned on the list of reasons why a person should have the covid jab under 75, so imagine we will have to pay for it.

Very brave, or foolish Robin202?
Obviously your choice.

Are you young, perhaps not in the UK?
Maybe you didn’t know anyone who had Covid and lost their life, almost did, or is still affected?

Robin202 take note.

Our local pharmacy offers private vaccination services.

We're so ancient we qualify for NHS, so we'll be getting flu and covid vaccines again this autumn.

DH gets his the same day in different arms. The only time I had both together I did not feel great the next day. So now I make two appointments a a week apart.