Vaccination 5-11 years

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Will you let your child have the vaccine? And reasons for and against?

Don’t know yet

Yes. DS10 had it last month (he's on the high risk list).

Because he wanted it - to be safe and to protect others.

Because I wanted him to have it - it will make him less likely to catch covid (which is rife at school), less likely to be very ill if he does catch it, and less likely to pass it on to people who are at higher risk.

Because the risk to him of having the vaccine is much smaller than the risks if he catches Covid.

No, I’m fully vaxxed but have had weird things happening to my body since. Periods are messed up, strange nerve sensations etc. my children have had Covid and weren’t poorly with it. At this point in time I feel they don’t need it.

No, I’ll think again as next winter approaches but not for now.

Yes.

DH, oldest DS, and myself are all fully vaxxed. I trust that it's safe and that it's the best way to protect them from the risk of serious complications including long covid.

Yes, yes, yes to both of my children being vaccinated as soon as it’s their turn. I agree with tobypercy’s comments.

The peace of mind of knowing they are vaccinated, and therefore better protected, will be huge too.

Yes

Civic duty to get vaccinated. Build up herd immunity. Protect those who can't be vaccinated.

Absolutely not. There is no good reason to give a healthy child the covid vaccine. The risk of covid to under 11s is miniscule.

Yes I’ll probably have my 7yr old vaxxed. It’s safe as far as I’m concerned, Passed trials and has been used on multiple other countries for kids.
I want to reduce the risk of transmission to him, reduce illness if he got covid, reduce risk severe covid and reduce risk of long covid.

Yes it will hurt briefly, as will HPV when it’s his turn for that, as did ore school boosters, MMR etc etc. But I’m 100% pro vaccine and I trust medicine/science

My 11 year old had it last month, will get her second later this month.

My dcs had covid and it was not even as bad as a cold. I doubt I will consent to the vaccine.

Yes. My 8 year old is already fully vaccinated (not uk).

Yes I will. The spread in primary age children is playing havoc with his life - schooling, childcare, sport, other extra curricular activities, parties etc. The more of his age group are vaccinated then he can finally look forward to something again without it being 50/50 it’ll be cancelled or worse happen with him unable to attend.

Yes. My 10 year old has long covid. My 14 year old has 2 lifelong autoimmune diseases triggered by covid. Both were 100% healthy before the pandemic, had literally never had anything wrong with them bar the odd cold. No family history, all super fit, great diets etc etc. And both exposed before they could be vaccinated.

So yeah: it's a shit virus and it's shit because we just don't understand it. I can't bloody wait to get my youngest protected. (Eldest is fully jabbed.)

Also we really want to visit family in the Netherlands and France next year and I worry they will start to expect vaccine proof from this age group.

Oh, and both my kids had very mild covid when they had it: eldest had no symptoms first time, then a headache for a day second time, youngest had a tummy upset. And yet it has wreaked havoc with their immune systems in the aftermath.

While I am super happy that it's generally not as bad for kids as it can be for adults, age and health doesn't necessarily equate full protection. As we unfortunately discovered.

Yes, as my over 12 yo has already had it my decision would always be to treat them the same so the under 12yo will get it when eligible.

Yes, she wants to.

Yes. Risks of vaccine are small but benefit in reducing spread is big.

Plus from a selfish point of view I do worry that other countries where vaccinating younger children is already being done will start to impose travel restrictions for unvaccinated children and I bloody well need my summer holiday to go ahead.

@Narutocrazyfox

Absolutely not. There is no good reason to give a healthy child the covid vaccine. The risk of covid to under 11s is miniscule.

This. My teens had it because they chose to, one of them hoped it would stop them getting covid and disrupting their schooling and the other has asthma and viruses make it worse. The JCVI advice at the time was really borderline in terms of risk/benefit for healthy children in that age group. They both caught covid a few months later anyway.

My younger child (actually just turned 12 so eligible anyway) doesn't want it and I don't see the benefit for her as she's healthy and not in exam years so disruption will be minimal.

I'm very pro vaccination in general and spent the last year giving thousands of Covid vaccines. But I can't see the benefits outweighing the risks at the moment, for younger children.

Not a fucking chance. Despite the media scaremongering the amount of kids who have been seriously ill with covid is minute.

No. We've all had Covid so no reason to vaccinate my 8 year old.
So many unknowns for them.

@Ilikecheeseontoast

No, I’m fully vaxxed but have had weird things happening to my body since. Periods are messed up, strange nerve sensations etc. my children have had Covid and weren’t poorly with it. At this point in time I feel they don’t need it.

This for me too.

Had my initial 2 vaccines and they messed with my periods. Decided against having a booster and will not be giving the vaccine to my pre-pubescent DDs.

We all had covid a few weeks back and me and DDs were asymptomatic. So currently I think the risk/benefit ratio doesn't warrant giving it to them.

DH and I are triple vaxxed, DC are 7 and 4 (she’ll be 5 in the spring). I’d love to get the DC vaccinated but the 7yo has extreme needle phobia and freaked out when I told him about the jab, no idea how I’d even get him to have it done tbh we’ve had Covid in the house twice and no one was unwell (7yo had a headache and snotty nose, 4yo no symptoms) so I’m really conflicted as they weren’t unwell with it and the risks are so small but then I know it’s the best thing to do

No, we've all had covid, my children do not need it, they are young and healthy and the risk of covid is not enough for me to get them vaccinated.