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Last updated: May 18, 2022

Register and book with the Get Vaccinated arrangement

Yous can register yourself or someone else, like a parent, grandparent or kid.Nosotros will never ask you lot for your SIN, driver'southward licence number or banking and credit menu details.

Once yous've registered, you'll be able to book an appointment using your confirmation number. Booking an date online or by phone is easy, convenient and guarantees your vaccination at a community pharmacy or vaccination clinic near you.

If needed, you can easily reschedule your appointment online.

Fastest pick: Online

To register online, you must provide:

Offset and last name
Date of nascency
Postal code
Personal Health Number (PHN)
An email address that gets checked regularlyor a phone number that can receive text messages

Find your PHNon the back of your B.C. commuter's licence, BC Services Card or CareCard.

Annals online It takes 2 minutes

Other registration and booking options

Everyone can get vaccinated, even if you don't take a PHN or other documentation.

It doesn't matter if you are a Canadian citizen or not. Register even if you have already received dose i in another location. All of your information volition be kept private and will never exist shared with other agencies or parts of government.

Data for children and youth

Ages 12 to 17

Under theInfants Act, you can give consent as a mature minor to receive health intendance, like getting a vaccine. If yous feel more than comfy getting vaccinated with a trusted adult, they tin can come up with y'all to your vaccination. When you get in at your engagement, you will complete a check-in process. Information technology'southward also a good idea to bring i slice of child identification, for instance:

BC Services carte
B.C. driver's licence
School ID carte du jour
Birth certificate
Banking concern bill of fare

Ages 5 to 11

The Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines for children utilize a smaller dosage of the aforementioned vaccine used for youth and adults. Children need a smaller dose of the vaccine to get the same protection from COVID-19.

Acquire more almost vaccines for children 5 to eleven

What to expect at your appointment

We recommend you review information on COVID-19 vaccine safety from HealthlinkBC earlier your appointment.You can expect to be at your appointment for 15 to 30 minutes.

Make it prepared

Get ready for your appointment:

Y'all do not need to fast.Be sure to beverage water
Bring your booking confirmation and photo ID
Wear a short-sleeved shirt and a mask. Y'all will be provided a mask if you need one
Arrive a few minutes before your scheduled appointment time

During the appointment

At the pharmacy or clinic you will:

Check-in with your photograph ID and booking confirmation. For modesty, you can ask for a private location to get your shot
Get either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine dose. A option will not be offered
Wait in an observation area after your shot for about 15 minutes

After your engagement, review COVID-19 Vaccination Aftercare (PDF, 953KB) from the BCCDC.

Getting dose 2

To get the near effective protection against serious cases of COVID-19, you need 2 doses of vaccine. You're not fully protected until y'all've had both doses.

Approximately 56 days afterwards your first dose, you will get an invitation by text, e-mail or phone telephone call to book your second dose appointment. Like your first appointment, you'll select a location, date and time.

You are encouraged to bring your immunization record bill of fare or show your online immunization record on Wellness Gateway at your date.

Information for people who are moderately to severely immunocompromised

People with moderately to severely compromised immune systems will generally have lower antibiotic responses from two COVID-xix vaccine doses. Studies prove that giving a third dose to complete the initial vaccine series tin can assistance these individuals create antibodies to protect them from COVID-19.

People who are moderately to severely immunocompromised and meet the criteria will receive a tertiary dose of vaccine.

Have had a solid-organ transplant and are taking immunosuppressive therapy:

Have had a solid organ transplant. May include a centre, lung, liver, kidney, pancreas or islet cells, bowel or combination organ transplant

Will have, are having, or are on active handling for solid tumour or hematologic malignancies (similar myeloma or leukemia):

Will have, are having, or in the final 12 months have received systemic treatment for a haematological malignancy, or in the final 24 months have received anti-CD20 or other B-cell depleting therapies for a haematologic malignancy
Volition have, are having, or in the concluding 24 months have had a bone marrow, stem cell transplant or CAR-T or who are notwithstanding taking immunosuppressive drugs
Will take, are having, or in the terminal vi months accept received anti-cancer systemic therapy for solid tumours (including but non limited to cytotoxic chemotherapy; molecular targeted therapy; immunotherapy; monoclonal antibodies; bone modifying agents used in the setting of metastatic illness; loftier dose steroids e.g equivalent to > 20mg/day for more than 1 month but excluding patients only receiving hormonal or os modifying therapy in the adjuvant setting)
Are planned for radiation, are having or will have had radiation in the last 3 months
Have a diagnosis of CLL/SLL, myeloma/plasmacytoma, or low grade lymphoma

Prior AIDS defining illness or prior CD4 count ≤ 200/mm3 or prior CD4 fraction ≤ 15% or any detectable plasma viral load since Jan 2021 or HIV infection and ≥ 65 years onetime or perinatally acquired HIV infection.

Are on active treatment with the following categories of immunosuppressive therapies:

In the last 2 years, been treated with anti-CD20 agents or like therapeutic agents: examples include rituximab, ocrelizumab, ofatumumab, obinutuzumab, ibritumomab, tositumomab
In the last ii years, been treated with B-jail cell depleting agents or similar therapeutic agents: examples include epratuzumab, MEDI-551, belimumab, BR3-Fc, AMG-623, atacicept, anti-BR3, alemtuzumab
In the last 3 months, been treated with biologic agents that are significantly immunosuppresive: examples include abatacept, adalimumab, anakinra, anifrolumab, benralizumab, brodalumab, canakinumab, certolizumab, dupilumab, eculizumab, etanercept, golimumab, guselkumab, infliximab, interferon products (blastoff, beta, and pegylated forms), ixekizumab, mepolizumab, natalizumab, omalizumab, ravulizumab, resilizumab, risankizumab, sarilumab, secukinumab, tocilizumab, ustekinumab, or vedolizumab
In the last 3 months, been treated with oral immune-suppressing drugs: examples include azathioprine, baricitinib, cyclophosphamide, cyclosporine, leflunomide, dimethyl fumerate, everolimus, fingolimod, mycophenolate, siponimod, sirolimus, tacrolimus, tofacitinib, upadacitinib, methotrexate, dexamethasone, hydrocortisone, prednisone (adult dose or pediatric dose equivalent of ≥20 mg per day or ≥2mg/kg daily if bodyweight <x kg), methylprednisolone, teriflunomide, or voclosporin
In the last 3 months, been treated with steroids orally or by injection on an ongoing basis (>14 days) that would interfere with immune responses: examples include dexamethasone, hydrocortisone, methylprednisolone, or prednisone (adult dose or pediatric dose equivalent of ≥xx mg per day or ≥2mg/kg daily if bodyweight <10 kg)
In the last 3 months, been treated with immune-suppressing infusions/injections: examples include cladribine, cyclophosphamide, glatiramer, methotrexate
In the concluding three months, been treated with intermittent high dose steroids administered every bit allowed suppression prior to intravenous enzyme replacement treatment

Have combined immune deficiencies affecting T-cells, allowed dysregulation (particularly familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis) or those with type 1 interferon defects (caused by a genetic principal immunodeficiency disorder or secondary to anti-interferon autoantibodies).

Have a moderate to severe primary immunodeficiency which has been diagnosed by an adult or pediatric immunologist and requires ongoing immunoglobulin replacement therapy (IVIG or SCIG) or the main immunodeficiency has a confirmed genetic cause (e.g. DiGeorge syndrome, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome).

Are on dialysis and/or with severe kidney or renal disease:

On dialysis (hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis) or accept stage 5 chronic kidney affliction (eGFR <15ml/min or have glomerulonephritis and receiving steroid treatment

You lot will be contacted by the provincial Become Vaccinated system about how and when to book a third dose, near four weeks later on y'all receive your second dose.

If you've selected email or SMS communication, yous'll be sent a link to volume an appointment online
If you've asked to be contacted by phone, a call middle amanuensis will call yous to book an appointment

If you believe you see the criteria of people who are moderately to severely immunocompromised and haven't been contacted, go far touch with your wellness care provider.

Information about getting a non-mRNA vaccine

If y'all're eighteen or older and would prefer to become a non-mRNA vaccine, you can asking the Novavax vaccine or Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

I haven't been vaccinated yet

If you lot haven't had dose 1 yet:

Register with the Get Vaccinated system
Phone call 1-833-838-2323 to be put on the non-mRNA waiting list

Yous'll exist contacted to book a dose 1 appointment at a location well-nigh you. Later, nosotros'll phone call you to schedule a dose 2 appointment.

I already had an mRNA vaccine

You tin get a non-mRNA vaccine for your second dose or booster:

Wait until yous receive your dose 2 or booster booking invitation
Call 1-833-838-2323 to be put on the non-mRNA waiting list

You'll be contacted to book an engagement at a location virtually yous.

I need help

Even if yous've already had COVID-19 and recovered, yous should nevertheless get vaccinated.

If you were recently sick, you tin get the vaccine once your symptoms take passed.

If you accept an appointment only you still have symptoms, reschedule for when yous will be fully recovered.

I need to reschedule my date

Rescheduling your date is easy and can be done online 24 hours a 24-hour interval.

Reschedule my appointmentNote:You must have your confirmation number.

Call ane-833-838-2323 . The call middle squad tin correct the information for you.

Outside Canada and the USA: 1-604-681-4261

Do not annals again.

I got dose i or two in another province or country