Will you be getting the COVID-19 vaccine?

[sloganhan]

It’s looking like this vaccine will be here sooner rather than later. I’m not sure how I feel about it to be honest.

Will you be getting the vaccine?
YABU - YES
YANBU - NO

Absolutely, I can't wait.

@tempnamechange98765

Source for the sooner rather than later news please?

Of course!

www.theguardian.com/business/2020/sep/10/oxford-covid-19-vaccine-is-still-possible-this-year-says-astrazeneca-chief?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/09/13/coronavirus-pfizer-vaccine-could-be-given-to-americans-before-end-of-year-ceo-says.html

These are two of the vaccines that the U.K. has bough or agreed to buy. www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/29/uk-signs-deal-for-fourth-potential-coronavirus-vaccine

I imagine the CEOs of AZ and Pfizer will be talking this up, but it seems likely there will be some vaccine available this year or early 2021. Not enough for everyone though so it won’t be an immediate game changer.

For me yes, my one year old not a chance.

Absolutely. Rolling up my sleeve ready, as we speak.

medium.com/@edwardnirenberg/long-term-effects-of-covid-19-vaccines-should-you-be-worried-c3c3a547b565

This article talks about long term effects.

If you mean long term effects as in a more or less immediate reaction, or a reaction within the first few weeks of being vaccinated, that has long term effects on the person then this would be picked up during the clinical trials as Phase 3 trials involve injecting thousands of people.

If you mean long term effects as in having a vaccine and then a side effect showing up many years later, to quote the article, that's not really a thing.

I think so. I'm a teacher currently isolating due to being in contact with a pupil who has tested positive. Only a few weeks into the new school year and I'm sure not the last time I end up isolating.

@Fudgefeet

But what about long term effects of the vaccine? That’s something you can’t speed up with all the funding in the world.

Most of the vaccine candidates (not all) are based on vaccine technology which is in use for vaccines against all diseases. So the safety has largely been established, its the efficacy and the ability to protect large populations which is what's being tested now.

Even if that were not the case I'd take my chances tbh

Sorry, that should have been in use for vaccines against other diseases

I think it’s a moot point, since once they’ve done all the ECV people and the over-65s, we’ll probably have used up all our first allocation of vaccine.

I do normally get an NHS flu jab, as do my dh and ds2, so perhaps we’ll get the covid jab the following year? I imagine it will be an annual thing?

Don't know. Normally I'm OK with vaccination but given the way the various Govs have handled this pandemic I am going to need a lot of information about it before signing up.

I am still cross from finding out that the 'people in hospital with Covid' measure the Gov constantly bleats out as a sign infections are rising and the NHS is about to be overwhelmed does not necessarily mean people who are in hospital because they need treatment for Covid. it can mean people who are in hospital for other things and get Covid while in hospital or people in long-stay hospitals, mental hospitals and the like (i.e. they live there) which is not the same.

No way. The government are still paying out for the children that has bad reactions to the swine flu vaccine and developed narcolepsy ( even though they did their best to not pay out compensation)

Children’s future lives were ruined and the government minister insisted it didn’t warrant a pay out despite them being classed as disabled and it being over ruled by the high court despite appeals to with hold payments.

If the government are pushing a vaccine there should be legal recourse if someone is effected badly by it. But we are not entitled to it.

The risks maybe small bit so is Covid against perfectly healthy adults and children so it I can’t justify injecting something in to my kids ( that hasn’t got the safe history that we normally have with regular vaccines) that may make them ill for the benefit of a tiny portion of society.

If other people want to take it it’s no business of mine.

[quote sloganhan]@MJMG2015 The trails DO take years and rightly so! It’s not ONLY funding that goes into vaccine production / research. Those educated enough to read would also know this.[/quote]
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I am still cross from finding out that the 'people in hospital with Covid' measure the Gov constantly bleats out as a sign infections are rising and the NHS is about to be overwhelmed does not necessarily mean people who are in hospital because they need treatment for Covid. it can mean people who are in hospital for other things and get Covid while in hospital or people in long-stay hospitals, mental hospitals and the like (i.e. they live there) which is not the same

Agree.

No I won't be having it.

No one could not possibly now the long term effects of the vaccine unless they can travel to the future. No one. It’s best guesses.

**know

I am not vulnerable so I wouldn’t take up a vaccine if there are a limited number available at first. However I have seen this screenshot circulating today - does anyone know why the government have added this part; that will not pay out for severe disability caused by a pandemic virus vaccine, but they will for all others?

I know there could be a good reason, but I can’t work it out. Hoping someone more educated is on this thread and could please enlighten me

You may not be getting it any time soon if this article is correct.

www.bbc.com/news/health-54371559

Yep.

Yes.

Yes please, as soon as it's available.

I obviously and expect my parents to have it first, and as I'm (just) under 40 I assume it won't be until late 2021 or even longer, but I would be very happy to get one.

@sloganhan Vaccines usually take years to develop because they need to wait for funding. All the money in the world is being thrown at the current vaccine trials, so there are no funding delays. The vaccines will have been through all the necessary safety trials. There is of course the small risk that they could cause long-term problems after X number of years, but that would be quite unlikely after so much research. All the vaccines likely to be ready next year are based on models of vaccine that are currently in use and have been for years, so there's no particular reason one for Covid would suddenly act differently.

Not if it’s true about the ingredient they are putting in to make it a visible vaccine

I have checked if this is true or not yet so don’t quote me on that

Probably not for a long time as I'm in the lowest risk category (white, female, under 50, no preexisting conditions, wfh)

I’m also very nervous at the news reports in the bbc last week of the adverse reaction to one of the trials in the U.K.

I think there’s been a small number but it still needs so much more testing before it can be deemed safe

No, they are rushing it through. Vaccines take years and it hasn’t even eradicates flu. The news headlines in 2018 of 50.000 extra deaths and I remember a few elderly dying that year. covid has a low mortality rate and even the most at risk survive. No one I know in real life is happy with the fact they are rushing this vaccine through. The consequences could be disastrous. I respect your right to but many also will not have it