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?

My 17 year old has had it already due to being clinically extremely vulnerable.

Mine will have it - no quarantine needed in various countries once jabbed

@FontyMcFontface

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.

Thankfully, they won't allow you to do that.

It's horrific that you'd even want to do that!!

I think it’s appalling if the vaccine is given to children when adults are dying in other countries leaving children as orphans, but the selfishness of the British people doesn’t surprise me now.

As for the people declaring their teenagers are into social responsibility, that clearly doesn’t extend to people in poorer countries or are they completely unaware of the difficulties of vaccine supply elsewhere? I wonder where their narrow minded view comes from. And holding your child down! Dear God.

Absolutely no chance it's going near my daughter. It's outrageous that they say the benefits outweigh the risks, when children have virtually no risk from catching or being very unwell with covid, yet there is risk of a reaction, maybe even severe. The benefits would only be to adults, not them!

Don't forget there is no long term data on these vaccines as they're still in trial until 2023 - which is stated on their own websites before I get shot down or my comment removed. I am not going against any terms and conditions! It's all there in black and white.

They've recently admitted that this is causing myocarditis in some. Why risk it?!

I have told DC to walk away and call me if they attempt to talk her into doing Gillick competency to get her to have it at school.

I don’t understand why the younger generation are having a jab for a virus that doesn’t affect them.

Most young people who have covid show no signs or symptoms, so why are they having a jab that we don’t know the long term side affects?

Anyone heard of the handmaids tale? Why are doing this to our young people?

Due to covid and lack of seeing people my 8 year old hasn’t had chicken pox.

Catching that could now be dangerous and leave her in hospital and with long term affects. But I’m not offered a jab for that to protect her. I can try and find somewhere privately.

But she will be offered a covid jab, an illness that she will show no signs or symptoms for,

Makes no sense

Not a chance at the moment- my dd isn't 12 til later in the year and obviously if she really wants it then that's her choice but I'll be strongly discouraging it.

My ds is 16 and already had his first dose of pfiezer 5 weeks ago due to being in group 6.

Haven’t had the conversation yet, but then again we don’t live our lives worrying about Covid. I’ve had both doses, one teen DC tested positive but didn’t have any symptoms and was/is fine. I understand why it’s been licensed for 12-15yr olds, because some vulnerable children will need to be vaccinated. However we really don’t need to mass vaccinate all 12-15yr olds, who aren’t really affected by this virus and would also need a booster every year. It’s not exactly a one off. I’d much rather that the vulnerable in less well off countries were being vaccinated instead of richer countries hogging the vaccines.

@Sushirolls

Absolutely no chance it's going near my daughter. It's outrageous that they say the benefits outweigh the risks, when children have virtually no risk from catching or being very unwell with covid, yet there is risk of a reaction, maybe even severe. The benefits would only be to adults, not them!

Don't forget there is no long term data on these vaccines as they're still in trial until 2023 - which is stated on their own websites before I get shot down or my comment removed. I am not going against any terms and conditions! It's all there in black and white.

They've recently admitted that this is causing myocarditis in some. Why risk it?!

I have told DC to walk away and call me if they attempt to talk her into doing Gillick competency to get her to have it at school.

could not agree more. I do not have an under 18 to make the decision for but given the stats on under 18s with good immune systems succumbing to COVID and the fact that most adults who are in any way vulnerable have been vaccinated already I would not be in any way encouraging any family members to get excited or counting the days to 'get it' Their decision but I hope they would not opt for it just to get back to 'normal' in the short term. As a vulnerable over 70yo I have had both jabs - I would not be so willing as a 17 year old with no health issues and a robust immune system even when the enticement of 'freedom to holiday' is presented to me.

For those who say they don't understand because they aren't that ill.

You do realise this isn't completely about preventing deaths and hospitalisation in this age group but about breaking transmission as secondary schools are proven to be high vectors of transmission which inevitably gets back into the community.

So vaccinating this age group is part of the herd immunity strategy and this matters as much for everyone.

Yes as they understand it reduces transmission and they want to help stop it spreading to other people especially DSs friend who can't have the jab and is immunosuppressed.
Also DDS best friend is 10 and has long covid so want to protect against that.

DS13 really wants to have it. I have read a lot about the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines and the development from reputable sources. It sounds like a lot of people need to do the same.

Dd(19) has had both of her AZ jabs. She is clinically vulnerable though so not having it was never an option.

Yep.

The BBC 'breaking news' article on this said that the benefits were being weighed up against the risks. Given that not a single healthy 12 to 17 year old has died from covid, and that even the most established vaccines come with a risk (albeit very small), the question begs why, for the health of the individual, would we even consider vaccinating children....first do no harm and all that. The vaccine appears to work against covid, and on a societal level we should have jabs in the arm of everyone for sure. But if you've been masking your child, locking them down, keeping them from school and their friends, desparate to keep them safe, and now you're going to be at the front of the queue to pop a new vaccine in their arm, which is more dangerous to them than covid has ever been, well the logic escapes me.

16yo DD doesn't want to have it. She's old enough and intelligent enough to make up her own mind.

I suspect she has antibodies at the moment, but she wouldn't have the test to find out.

It took me a month to fully recover from the first AZ jab (DD thinks I was rough for only two days). I'll see what happens with the second jab, but at the moment I'm not desperate for DD to change her mind.

Thanks to the timing of the various lockdowns, DD has had two HPV shots and the booster to the toddler vaccines administered in the past 18 months.

She is very keen to get a Covid jab (neither DH or I were especially affected by ours).
We are in a small university city, so it would be good to have her protected from the inevitable surge that occurs every time thousands of students shift countries/counties/households next Autumn.

Are they on under 30's yet?

Mine are 15 and 16. Both want it.

Someone from JVCI on bbc news currently.

@Roonerspismed

Amazed. Amazed at this thread.

Have decided I am quite mad. Absolutely no way mine will until I see longer term data. Can’t understand why any parent would want it for their teens. Can’t understand why we aren’t vaccinating more vulnerable adults across the works instead.

As an aside we have very little knowledge of longer term effects of mRNA vaccines. Autoimmunity is main concern but the menstrual irregularities and myocarditis also need more data. Can’t understand why more people aren’t hugely bothered about this

You are not mad. The whole world has gone mad. Mine won't be having it, they know how I feel about the vaccine, I send them lots of links to adverse reactions and deaths from it. Myself and their dad haven't had it either.

DD is too young at the moment but I'd be absolutely thrilled for her to have it, as would she. DS decided months back that he'd be first in the queue as soon as he was allowed so it's brilliant news that he may soon be able to.

You are not mad. The whole world has gone mad. Mine won't be having it, they know how I feel about the vaccine, I send them lots of links to adverse reactions and deaths from it. Myself and their dad haven't had it either.

I can imagine some sending links like this. Esp if they don’t have it themselves.

My 16 yr old already has.

My 14 yr old will be without a doubt.