evidence: Call your local pharmacy or check its website for vaccine availability and online scheduling. You can also: [...] Federal officials recommend that almost everyone get one of the newest vaccinations. [...] The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are a type called a messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine. Novavax’s is a protein-based (or protein-subunit) vaccine. All these vaccines teach the body how to fight the virus that causes COVID-19 without you actually having to get the illness. None of the vaccines causes the illness — there is no live virus in any of the vaccines.