Will your teenagers be taking the covid vaccine

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DD is 16 and has said she won’t. I wondered with the Pfizer vaccine being approved for age 12-15 will your teens be taking the covid vaccine and are you leaving the decision to them?

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Yes my dd actually told me this news herself today with a “isn’t that great mum”. I think the majority of young people care about others hopefully those that don’t will have parents who do.

Yes- my DD(19) is very keen and looking for a walk-in and ds (11) saw the news about Pfizer being okayed for 12-15 and said 'Great! I can have it next year'

My 18 year old happy to have it. I’m a bit more nervous around my 12 year old - she didn’t react well to her baby jabs (she had them all but under hospital supervision) so want to make sure Pfizer ok for her to have given her previous reactions - but I’ll chat through GP and hopefully she can have it.

Yes

Yes. She's keen.

I really hope so!

My 19yr old has already.

DS2 has had both, waiting for DS1 to have them now

Yes.

Yes my 19 year old has his next week

I think DS1 (16) will.
Ds2 (14) won't. But he hasn't had any jabs since his pre school ones. He's extremely anxious around medical appointments. He's even fainted in the opticians. So it's a flat no to any jab for him. Not just the covid one. My mum told him he has to. Not sure how she's planning on forcing him because I'm certainly not.

Of course.

I’m not sure what I would do if they didn’t want it. I’d do everything but hold them down. Fortunately mine both can’t wait.

Dd9 would refuse it as needle phobic. I would restrain her for it if it was offered to her.

No

DS2 already had them. Really pleased.

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Of course.

I’m not sure what I would do if they didn’t want it. I’d do everything but hold them down. Fortunately mine both can’t wait.

Dd9 would refuse it as needle phobic. I would restrain her for it if it was offered to her.

And that is how you make a phobia worse. Please don't do that!

Yes.
Dd, 19 has already and ds said he would.

Yes I really want my asthmatic (therefore vulnerable) 12 yo Dd to have it.

Would prefer her to have Pfizer so I’m glad that’s what’s going.

My 18yr old has already had both doses. All his friends are very keen to be vaccinated.

DS1 (20) isn’t sure if he wants to have the vaccine. Not sure about DS2 (16) as we haven’t discussed it yet. I am very pro vaccine but don’t want to push too hard as believe it should be personal choice.

My teen already has (18, had Pfizer), second jab next week.

I trust this will be offered to my primary age child soon too. I am not old enough to have a teenage child in the current vaccination age range. Protection should be for all including young as they are evidently spreading Covid in schools but (hopefully) have mild symptoms from these even more contagious current Indian and Nepal variants of vaccine escape. Possibly Covid (whatever Greek alphabet variant) will be vaccinated like annual influenza. Just hope they don’t all escape and beat the vaccine race.

My 16-yr-old DC has been keen to have it for a while. 11-yr-old is very nervous of the idea of injections; they don't consciously remember having their pre-school booster jab but had a bad reaction to it and ended up in A&E. With time to find out about it and do their own reading about it, I'm fairly confident DC2 will opt to have it but imagine they'd want it done at somewhere other than at school so DH or I could be there.

Mine are both keen to have theirs as soon as possible.

My 12yo got her 2nd Pfizer shot today.