I got COVID-19 after receiving my first vaccine dose. When should I get my second dose?

You can get the second dose up to six weeks (42 days) after the first dose. If you’re currently infected with COVID-19, even if you only have mild symptoms, you should wait to get vaccinated until after your illness has resolved and after you’ve met the criteria from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to stop isolation. Current evidence suggests that reinfection with the virus that causes COVID-19 is low in the months after initial infection. However, the risk of reinfection may get higher as time passes after infection. Therefore, while vaccine supplies remain limited, people with a recent infection may temporarily delay vaccination, knowing that risk may be low initially and then increase as time passes.