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can you choose which one you want?
Officially no. Sometimes vaccination centres have both on the go on the same day and will give you a choice but generally they don't. You.can sometimes work out what a vaccination centre will.be using and pick that way but they might change.
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Not officially. My father-not-in-law was determined to get Pfizer last year though so went around Walthamstow asking who had it until he got it, but he'd been living in the Philippines and had also had the Chinese vaccines, so was theoretically unvaccinated. He's also a boomer so they were desperate to jab him.
You could play the same card presumably, but there's only Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax available in the UK at the moment, and I don't know anyone who's had the latter. Not sure why you want to choose but the efficacy of Pfizer and Moderna are very similar and both mRNA vaccines.
If you're worried about Moderna side effects I felt fine after 24hrs and was never that bad.
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The only issue might be that the first booster (3rd shot) was a half dose of Moderna which was proven to work well as top up to 2x AZ or Mod/PHZ, not sure what the pfizer dose was.
So there is maybe an argument for a full sized shot of Modena/Pfizer for you.
But if you have had covid before then a current booster (bivalent) will top you up.
I would speak to either a GP or go to one of the larger vaccination centres for your area like the ones at Kings/Guys/StThomas’s (these are SE london health authority) I know the bigger centres offer first/second/booster doses but smaller pharmacies didn’t last time i looked.
I am not a qualified/trained health professional
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I've had three doses of one of the Chinese vaccines but would like to get a western vaccine once I'm in the UK - can you choose which one you want?