Will you be getting the COVID-19 vaccine?

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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

I work in drug development and licensing. I consider myself well educated. My company is involved in Covid vaccine studies (Although I am personally not). I will have the vaccine and encourage family and friends to do so. No medicine is zero risk but this will not get a license without provision of sufficient evidence of safety and efficacy to prove a good risk:benefit ratio.

But boris has said they will release without a license because there’s not enough time to license it

@Cooroo good luck tomorrow. Thank you for taking part in something so important

Yes. I just want this to be over.

I think for me it will depend a lot on how much we know about the vaccine - and in fact the virus - at the point the vaccine becomes available.

At the moment my feeling is that my DH and I will definitely get it, but I probably won’t give it to my son. I’ve given him all the jabs on the vaccination schedule, but on a risk benefit analysis it doesn’t make sense to me to take the risk of giving a healthy child a new and potentially unlicensed vaccine against a disease that is incredibly unlikely to make them seriously unwell. And a disease they appear to be less likely to transmit than adults.

But I’ll make a decision based on the information and advice available at the time.

Yes, I would and I have volunteered to be in the next stage of the Oxford trial, which is running in the NHS Trust I work in. These vaccines are coming along fast because all the usual (mostly financial) obstacles just aren't there. Nothing sinister about it.

@Cooroo

Yes - tomorrow! Or it may be a placebo of course as I'm in the testing.

Welcome to the guinea pig club, I got mine last Wednesday.

I would say yes but as I don't fall into any risk categories I doubt I'll be top of the list. I imagine that when it comes out it will have similar criteria to the current flu jab and not everyone will get it and it will be risk based.