Vaccination 5-11 years

[Isntisironic1]

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

My son was offered the jab a couple of weeks ago and I am not taking him. He is 9 years old and has special needs.
It's not needed

Sal

My son was offered it a couple of weeks ago too (he’s 6).
Today I got a text message asking me again, plus a letter, reminding me.

He already had covid (delta) in July,

I feel I’m given no info or chance to look into it on his age group. I won’t be signing him up for a jab without knowing more for his age. He has severe asthma. But covid didn’t affect his lungs. He had a fever and a rapid heart.

No, my daughter is 5 and she has had covid twice with barely any symptoms.

No. Because there’s no medium term or long term data. Only reason to get a medical intervention is for a patient’s own benefit so the ‘community’ aspect is irrelevant, especially for small children.

Yes, dd has been identified by NHS as being eligible (SN) however the GP is saying she isn't on their list.

I won't. My 8 year old had Covid and wasn't unwell at all, barely a sniffle while I was floored with it.

For me the negative of her being potentially unwell after it, or the very rare possibility of a reaction isn't worth the protection against a virus she can still catch and didn't really impact her when she did have it.

I'm not at all an anyone vaxxer. I'm triple vaccinated (and still got Covid twice) and she's up to date with all other vaccines.

We're living in Belgium and the vaccination campaign for 5-11 year olds started here already early January. I was also in doubt but in the end decided to go for it. I followed a facebook live session on it (for those speaking Dutch: ) by two health experts which convinced me that all in all it was better to have them vaccinated.
I also read that in January this year about 800 kids were hospitalised in Belgium, which is a very high number in my view. Indeed, most of them had innocent symptoms but if it can be avoided by vaccination...

I think it is a jab, would love it if it was a nasal spray! My needle-hating DS has been fine with the nasal flu spray at school. Not even sure why he’s so frightened, he just gets scared at anything vaguely medical - a covid TEST took 2 hours as he kept screaming and grabbing the swab, I don’t think he’d let anyone near him with a needle