4. A Vaccine is a Vaccine
When we book a consultation with our doctor to vaccinate ourselves and our family members, we would forgive you for thinking that there is only one type of pneumococcal vaccine for everyone. However, this uninformed position is an assumption with no grounding in reality.
Pneumococcal vaccines are available in two different formats called PCV13 and PPSV23. There are minor differences in these vaccines that make them suitable for different people. When arriving at your doctor’s office, the physician will evaluate your medical history and present state of health and make the call on which type of vaccine to use to inoculate you against the bacteria.
It makes little difference which vaccine your doctor chooses to administer, and this is a point in the process where you have to trust their best judgment unless you wish to go and spend 9-years studying medicine to earn your practitioner license. The chances are your doctor has administered thousands of these vaccines, and if there were a problem, they would know about it before anyone else.