Schools should offer yearly Covid jab instead of flu

Agree

COVID vaccination can cause myocarditis and pericardial effusions in young males particularly.

I think I'd rather my child caught a cold , i.e COVID.

Is there any children you know that have become seriously ill through COVID ?

If not, we could start vaccinating against rhinovirus (the common cold ) ?

My teenage son got really ill from the Covid jab, it also messed up my periods (and that of other women I know). Also didn’t stop us getting covid multiple times. We’ve all had the flu jab at various times, including younger primary aged DD who gets the nasal spray and never had any ill side effects.

The covid vaccine does not prevent you from getting or passing on covid, and has many drawbacks for children.

Eligibility for Covid jab has been vastly reduced. I was getting it last year alongside the flu jab due to having diabetes but this year the only people eligible are over 75s, in a care home or specific immune conditions.

Ridiculous

vaccine does NOT stop you getting it. You are more likely to suffer side effects and maybe become infertile. Don’t give this to your children

People still getting them ? Clearly the most useless jab and with millions of side effects

The Covid jab costs nearly £100 privately. I would imagine that is what is putting a lot of people off doing it privately.
DH is under 60 but entitled to free flu jab due to illness (heart disease). However, he is not entitled to Covid jab as it is much stricter. In his words, ‘if it’s dangerous for me to get flu, it’s dangerous for me to get Covid’. It’s all about money unfortunately.

I've wondered about this too. Considering that covid will be doing the rounds again this autumn and winter,and school age children are regarded as 'super spreaders' of anything,not just covid,it seems mad not to offer it in schools.

Even frontline NHS staff entitled to flu jabs don't get COVID jabs this year !

I think cost is a significant factor for Covid (mRNA) vaccines. I paid nearly £100 for mine.

I now have chronic health conditions from the Covid vaccine. Just like thousands of others.

The doctors refuse to confirm the cause in writing so there is no evidence, and therefore no recourse to any benefits or compensation for those of us who can no longer work.

We are living a nightmare and it is being censored by the government and media.

I have always been very pro-vaccine, but please know that the data and information you are being fed is not accurate.

I didn't say 'most' flu was asymptomatic or even close to it, and there's good reason for that. There are wildly varying estimates for how much flu is asymptomatic, because it's so hard to get a handle on.

That hardly surprising, as people who are asymptomatic would surely hardly ever get tested, as from their point of view they’re not even ill. Even those who are symptomatic don’t usually take a test, they just stay in bed if they need to until they’ve recovered.

Why are you asking people to back up things they've not said?

I didn't say 'most' flu was asymptomatic or even close to it, and there's good reason for that. There are wildly varying estimates for how much flu is asymptomatic, because it's so hard to get a handle on.

This gov.uk report, for example, states that estimates range from 30-50% but the proportion may depend on the strain.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6838317b5150d70c85aafab9/Green-book-chapter-19-influenza-28May2025.pdf

Other research with both higher and lower estimates exist too, which fits with what was said there. We don't know the proportion, only that it's very much a thing. This is why it's better not to use language that pretends we can be more accurate than we're actually able to be.

You'll note that it doesn't say flu 'knocks you out for two weeks and six weeks to really recover'. It also mentions fatalities, which are another example of influenza infections that don't fit within the description you provided earlier.

Some CV people will be vaccinated. The category criteria has tightened. He was given food parcels every week by the Scottish government and now they don’t give a fuck about him.

Can you provide evidence to back up your own claims? That most flu is asymptomatic in the absence of flu vaccines?

No, I'm suggesting that nobody should be making completely incorrect claims about the symptoms and duration associated with the flu virus, in any context. It's not a huge hurdle to clear...

YABU Flu kills thousands of people every year, the young, old and vulnerable particularly at risk. I was hospitalised with it once, thought I was going to die and it took me months to recover.

You do realise that the Covid jab doesn't prevent you from catching or transmitting Covid - it simply reduces the severity of the symptoms as well as helping reduce the level of transmission by reducing the period of infection.

It’s the NHS that does the jabs. Using school premises. I’ve spent years being the person who organises the school side of this !

So you are suggesting deaths and morbidity aren’t relevant when designing public health programs?

If the duration and symptoms of flu are irrelevant when discussing vaccines, you shouldn't have raised the issue in the first place. Especially not to say something so wrong about it!

Whilst post viral fatigue and long covid are similar they are not the same with symptoms of LC far more extensive and immune system compromised with triggering of other auto immune conditions hence the rise is Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) and POTS as well.

The same as fibromyalgia and ME are not the same conditions but share similarities.

I would hope as a health scientist you would have a less blasé response in working life to a condition that effects thousands of people.
I don't however agree with the OP on vaccinations for children.