To ask whether you would have and give your DC the COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available?

[Juniorpromdressqueen]

Apologies if this has been asked before.

I’m very pro-vax, but the thought of such a new vaccine makes me feel a bit nervous. Then again, so does the thought of coronavirus.

I was reading an article in The Atlantic about the vaccine today, and it said 21% of Americans say they won’t have the vaccine and another 30% are undecided, and it made me think about it, because my initial reaction was, “idiots!!” and then I realised that made me hypocritical, as I am nervous myself.

What would you do, if you and your family could have the vaccine at Boots tomorrow?

I suspect that when there is a vaccine and it is licences it will be for adults only (I’m assuming it is only be tested on adults at the moment) and that children will be last to be vaccinated as they are the least vunerable (and I’m assuming all the trials have been on adults and I don’t know how they get a vaccine approved to use on children). When there is a vaccine I suspect Health and social care workers will be vaccinated first, then people in vunerable groups (including elderly people), then the general adult population, then children. I suspect pregnant women and some people with existing medical condition will not be able to be vaccinated

and the fact that there are compensation programmes in place is irrelevant - there can always be unexpected and unusual reactions to a vaccine, even one that is considered safe and is regularly used for millions of people. It would be negligent of them not to prepare for such reactions - it's always possible, but the risks of those are much much less than the risks of most of the diseases, which can also have unpredictable and unexpected extreme effects.

the government is investing in the vaccines; they are not making them, designing them, or testing them - that is being done by independent science companies.

One of whom Hancock has a conflict of interest in... when did the public become so gullible?

Of course.

100% yes for me & my kids.

that's the company that's making them, not the scientists

Yes, and have it myself even if it's still being trialled.

I would I'm signed up to be in the next lot of people to take part in the testing

I am fairly confident me and my children would be fine.

How on earth could you know that? I have a superb immune system (teaching for 30 years) and I would like to think that I would be fine if I caught it, but...

@VeryQuaintIrene

I am fairly confident me and my children would be fine.

How on earth could you know that? I have a superb immune system (teaching for 30 years) and I would like to think that I would be fine if I caught it, but...

It's the same as you all thinking you'd be fairly confident a vaccine won't maim you

Errrr because rushed vaccination programmes have been maiming and killing people for decades...

Huh? Lol.

Even if this was true ( I don't believe that the risk is significant or we wouldn't have a successful global vaccination program- and the world would be stuffed) surely it's better than Covid "maiming and killing people"?

And please read the recent post below re explaining how this vaccine can be rushed

No, it really isn't the same thing at all.

No, not until my risk factor jumps with age. And definitely not for my children. There hasn't been enough time for them to adequately test it on the human reproductive system & I'm hoping for healthy grandchildren one day.

My fear of the vaccine is smaller than my fear of covid

I was really reassured by (I think it was) Prof Sarah Gilbert who explained that much of the vaccine technology was making use of tried and tested research, so it's not completely new.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p089xqrl

The way that I look at it is that the annual flu jab is "new" each year but we don't think of it that way and we aren't afraid of it.

The vaccine hasn't been 'rushed' in terms of safety. It's undergone all the normal testing. Vaccine development has been rapidly increasing in timescales for years. With so many countries working on the virus and disseminating information the whole process has been far more streamlined.

Probably, lll do a little more research but I'm relatively confident that the worst that would happen as a result is that it won't work.

No.

There hasn't been enough time for them to adequately test it on the human reproductive system & I'm hoping for healthy grandchildren one day.

What do you think it would do to the reproductive system? do you have any specific concerns about how it would affect it? I don't think there would ever be any plans to test it in this way beyond what they are doing now. They have already tested for safety, they have used versions of the vaccine before. There might be questions about whether it should be used by pregnant women, yes, but if you're meaning something further in the future than that - in what ways are you thinking it would affect things? Why this vaccine in particular?

As long as the science behind it is clear and accessible, yes.
But I'd rather read tons of scientific stuff and learn as I go than just believe. But I know I'm very stupid in this regards...
Upside: I have so much weird knowledge in my head because of this attitude :)

Without hesitation. Scientists have been working in the background for years preparing to develop a vaccine for a pandemic causing virus. Nothing 'rushed' about this process, it's just been hastened by throwing massive amounts of resources at the process to get to end product ASAP. Science deniers drive me nuts.

@PepperMooMoo

Not. A. Chance,

No one had even heard of coronavirus this time last year, there is no way I would accept a rushed through vaccine, that hasn't adhered to normal clinical trial timelines. Not a chance.

Many people had heard of Coronavirus before Covid-19. This is just a different strain so research into previous other types of Coronavirus are now relevant to developing a vaccine for this strain. Coronavirus is a family of virus’s. They’ve been around a long time, we’ve just not seen this strain before.

And absolutely I’ll let DD have the vaccine. Me too.

It might well be the most closely watched vaccine development process in history; I’d love to know exactly how posters think they are going to manage to ignore the strict regulatory requirements.
If you don’t want a ‘new’ vaccine, what did you do about the scheduled ones? Did you call in advance and ask for the brand name (as there are multiple vaccines available for each illness)? Did you then look up that vaccine and find out when it was introduced? You could easily have already had a new vaccine without ever knowing it. Why switch the paranoia on for this particular one?