Appointments

A note re: appointment availability...

A note re: appointment availability...

If you don’t see availability for the vaccine and dates/times you’re interested in, this is intentional.

Due to regular fluctuations in our vaccine stock and availability of personnel to assist with vaccination, we are currently releasing appointments as we are able, which may only show a week or two out. Any verbiage referring to appointments not being available for many months can be disregarded.

Want to receive important updates about our vaccination services, including appointment availability? Please subscribe to our news bulletin, the DOSE. If you’re unable to subscribe, you’ll need to revisit our booking page frequently to see when additional appointments are added.

Please refrain from calling or emailing us to ask about availability unless you need assistance with booking an appointment.

FAQs

  • Subscribing to our occasional news bulletin, the DOSE, is the best way to receive important announcements from us, including about our vaccination services. We’ll never use this news bulletin for marketing purposes and you can unsubscribe at any time.

  • We recommend checking out our Vaccination page first, then sending us a message here if you have any additional questions. This page has detailed information about the vaccines we offer, age requirements (they do differ from vaccine to vaccine!), pricing, travel, and how to access your Minnesota state vaccination record using the Docket app.

  • Visit our Vaccination page to read more information about the vaccines we offer, pricing, and how to prepare for your appointment. We recommend checking this page out BEFORE booking your appointment, since the page includes important information about vaccines that cannot be administered with others, age requirements, etc.

  • Click on the green “Change/Cancel Appointment” button toward the bottom of the confirmation or reminder emails you receive upon booking/shortly before your scheduled appointment.

    If you no longer have access to these emails and need assistance with rescheduling or canceling, message us here.

  • Nope! You caught us—we do set appointments in our scheduling system to be 5 minutes long by default so that it will allow us to schedule more appointments per day. Despite this, most vaccination appointments are actually 15 - 20 minutes long so that we have enough time to bill your vaccination to insurance, answer any questions you may have, prepare and administer the vaccine, and provide any necessary patient education. Shingles vaccination appointments (or any appointment in which you are receiving multiple vaccines or a vaccination for the first time) are 30 minutes long.

Read me prior to booking, please!

Select your appointment type carefully and book using the details of the person(s) receiving the vaccination (i.e., if you're booking for someone else, don't use your name, birthday, etc.).

Use your full legal name and date of birth so that we may attempt to bill your vaccine in preparation for appointment. If you'd like us to call you something different than your legal name, include it in parentheses after your legal first name (e.g., Rosamund (Rosie) Smith).

It's also best to use a cell phone number if you have one, since our system is able to send booking reminders via text. However, if you don't have a cell phone, please still include the best home or work phone to reach you at.

If booking one of the vaccines mentioned below, click on the + to read more detailed information about that vaccine before proceeding with your booking.


Thank you kindly for your cooperation and heeding our instructions—we know it's a lot, but it helps us immensely. The less time we spend addressing calls and emails about questions already answered here and rescheduling mis-booked appointments, the more time we can spend vaccinating you and your loved ones!

  • All individuals ages 6 months and older are currently recommended by the CDC to receive a single booster using the 2024-2025 formulation of an FDA-approved mRNA or protein subunit vaccine (we offer both), at least 2 months from their last dose. People who are moderately or severely immunocompromised may receive 1 or more age-appropriate additional doses of a 2024–2025 COVID-19 vaccine.

    We are currently offering the updated 2024-2025 monovalent versions of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccines and Novavax (protein subunit) vaccine at our pharmacy to both adult and pediatric patients.Please note that we are only offering the Moderna pediatric COVID vaccine at this time.

    All of these vaccines are considered interchangeable by the CDC based on data supporting their safety and efficacy. If you want to learn more about the difference between these vaccines, we recommend checking out this article.

  • Appointments for adult (regular and high dose formulations) and pediatric (3+ years old) will become available to book via our Appointments page on September 16th. If you are traveling or have other extenuating circumstances and need to be vaccinated earlier, give us a call or send us a message here.

    Additionally, some articles released in 2023 by major news outlets discussed a connection between stroke and the flu and COVID vaccines, most especially in those who are 85+ years old and receive the high dose flu and COVID shots together. It’s important to note that the data cited in these articles is based on observational studies that cannot determine cause and effect between receiving these vaccines and the incidence of stroke, and so requires much further investigation before determining that vaccination recommendations need to be changed. Additionally, the association cited happened in a very small number of cases overall, and must be considered alongside the risk of stroke (and other complications) from the illnesses that these vaccines protect against. For these reasons, at this time, the CDC and ACIP are NOT recommending that individuals over 65 years old avoid receiving the high dose flu vaccine, which is shown to be significantly more effective at protecting older patients against flu regardless of their health status. However, we are more than happy to separate your COVID and flu vaccination appointments, or give you the regular dose flu shot, if you prefer.

  • This is a new vaccine that was recently approved for use and is currently, per updated recommendations from the CDC, recommended in all persons 75+ years old, 60 - 74 years old with certain health conditions, and all pregnant people 32 - 36 weeks gestation. The recommended timeframe for administration of this seasonal vaccine is September to January. At this point in time, individuals are recommended to receive only ONE dose; if you’ve already received this vaccine, you don’t need additional doses.

    In 2023, we appeared to be one of the only known providers of this vaccine for pregnant people in the Twin Cities and surrounding areas, as far as Rochester, MN (possibly even beyond). It’s possible that pregnant folks will continue to struggle finding the vaccine this year. If you know someone who is pregnant and in need of this vaccine, please send them our way! If you or they have trouble booking an appointment online, give us a call or send us message here; we can make sure that you or they receive this vaccine in the appropriate window, which is just one month long.

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