The Montgomery County Health department will begin offering a third dose of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines to the immunocompromised beginning on Monday, August 23, 2021. People can begin registering now here.

From the Montgomery County website:

Anyone with the following conditions is eligible for a third dose of Pfizer or Moderna:

• Active treatment for any cancer (not history) including chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or surgery within two years.
• Receipt of solid-organ transplant and currently taking immunosuppressive therapy
• Receipt of CAR-T-cell or hematopoietic stem cell transplant (within two years of transplantation or taking immunosuppression therapy)
• Moderate or severe primary immunodeficiency (e.g., DiGeorge syndrome, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome)
• Advanced or untreated HIV infection
• Active treatment with high-dose corticosteroids (i.e., ≥20mg prednisone or equivalent per day), alkylating agents, antimetabolites, transplant-related immunosuppressive drugs, cancer chemotherapeutic agents classified as severely immunosuppressive, tumor-necrosis (TNF) blockers, and other biologic agents that are immunosuppressive or immunomodulatory.
• Steroids – daily or regular doses of prednisone, prednisolone, decadron. (Not single injection)
• Alkylating agents and antimetabolites used for chemotherapy medications
• TNF blockers – most common are Humira, Enbrel, Remicade, Simponi – the generic names end with either -ercept or – iximab. Used for rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, ulcerative colitis/Crohn’s disease, ankylosing spondylitis.

For more information and for participating clinics, click here.