COVID-19: Louisiana Reopens

Provides an overview with general information about the currently available COVID-19 vaccines, including minimum age and number of doses in primary series.

To understand how COVID-19 vaccines work, it helps to first look at how our bodies fight illness.

Messenger RNA vaccines—also called mRNA vaccines—are some of the first COVID-19 vaccines authorized for use in the United States.

Viral vector vaccines are a type of vaccine likely to be among the COVID-19 vaccines authorized for use in the United States.