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Would you have the vaccine...

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Klaudia14 · 02/08/2020 14:56

Just curious. Yes or no is fine.

If the vaccine against Covid19 was offered to you would you have it?

I'm not an anti vaccinations at all ( though I don't take my dog for boosters and do a titre test to check his immunity) but I don't feel like there would be enough testing done on a rushed vaccine. It would be hard one in our little household as DH is totally for it and I'm totally against at moment! We're not in a vulnerable/shielding group, both early 40's with a teenager. Both keyworkers but not on frontline.

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karmasic · 02/08/2020 17:05

I doubt there will be enough vaccines to go round so I'm not thinking about it too much.

I am not in a vulnerable group or NHS and I would think they are getting it first.
I hope it will be ready for this winter when the next wave comes.

I could apply and probably get it due to my job, but I'm going to try and avoid it if I can and not apply (and hope my employer doesn't notice and push me to have it) so I guess the answer is no.

I might have it in subsequent years when we know more about the virus and the vaccine.

ThatDamnScientist · 02/08/2020 17:06

@duckme

I really don't know. I've said from the beginning that I'd take whatever was offered so that we could go back to normal life. However, I am struggling to have a great deal of confidence in the government right now!
Your confidence doesn't need to be in the government with regard the vaccine but the independent scientists at oxford (or any number of other research facilities) who are expanding on years of work to develop this vaccine.
Confined123 · 02/08/2020 17:07

Yes. And my entire family will be getting one too. None of us are at high risk.

Jussayingisall · 02/08/2020 17:08

Well Russia are ready to go, so see how they get on.

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Klaudia14 · 02/08/2020 17:10

@raviolidreaming

I have only ever heard anti-vaxxers talk about checking titers.
I'm anti-over vaccinating my dog. Again, personal decision but not an irresponsible one as I check his immunity for the three core deadly illnesses that he's been vaccinated against! If it showed he wasn't immune I would vaccinate him again.
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KatherineParr4 · 02/08/2020 17:12

No

Booq · 02/08/2020 17:15

There is a LOT of misunderstanding on this thread.

When released it will be safe.

1/Go and research the process that has been undertaken. It has not "been rushed".

2/ as someone else said, the regulators don't dick around. Boris is not in charge of this.

As a side I'm a bit confused by people who are saying "I'm not an antivaccer but I don't have the flu jab". It's a socially responsible thing to do to protect to vulnerable. It does not give you flu.

rosie39forever · 02/08/2020 17:15

All those who won't have it because it's been rushed through, if we're talking about the Oxford vaccine then it's been in development for over 5 years it's the MERS vaccine that's been repurposed. As a previous poster already stated it's already been through stage 3 testing successfully, so if it's this one then yes I'd be at the front of the queue tomorrow.
Any other vaccine I would have to do a bit of research first but would still be a 99% yes.

Mindymomo · 02/08/2020 17:19

Definitely yes. My husband is in a risk category and we feel our life is on hold at the moment, whilst other people are happily going out, eating in restaurants, drinking in pubs, going to gym, we are just being very careful.

juneisbustingout · 02/08/2020 17:25

Yes

BatShite · 02/08/2020 17:25

It's a socially responsible thing to do to protect to vulnerable. It does not give you flu.

I didn't think of it like this, always considered the flu jab was about keeping the person recieving it safer, rather than an 'everyone should get it to keep others safe' thing like many other vaccines.

I don't think flu jab take up is helped by the amount of people who do seem to get flu right after they get the jab. I know it is likely a different strain and just bad luck, but it does seem to happen a bloody lot. 3 years running my mother in law has gone down with flu within weeks of getting her flu injection, and now firmly believes the injection is the cause of it. I keep trying to convince her its not the case and that its best for her to get the jab, but shes having none of it this year.

Hearhoovesthinkzebras · 02/08/2020 17:30

@Booq

There is a LOT of misunderstanding on this thread.

When released it will be safe.

1/Go and research the process that has been undertaken. It has not "been rushed".

2/ as someone else said, the regulators don't dick around. Boris is not in charge of this.

As a side I'm a bit confused by people who are saying "I'm not an antivaccer but I don't have the flu jab". It's a socially responsible thing to do to protect to vulnerable. It does not give you flu.

Well, it will have been rushed because it would have been developed, tested and released within a year or two rather than the more normal ten plus years.

They might not even know how long it lasts for when it's released. They definitely won't know of potential long term side effects that occur maybe five years down the line or after multiple doses will they?

rosie39forever · 02/08/2020 17:30

@BatShite the flu vaccine cannot give you the flu it hasn't got live virus in it it's made from inactive flu virus. The child's nasal vaccine though s a live vaccine but works n a similar way the actual flu strain would. My MIL is exactly the same nearly 80 and flat out refuses to have the flu jab, bloody infuriating.

OneKeyAtATime · 02/08/2020 17:30

Can i ask why some of you are against the flu jab?

feelingverylazytoday · 02/08/2020 17:31

Yes, I can't wait.

Bouledeneige · 02/08/2020 17:32

Yes of course. Why not?

As a generation we have benefitted from all sorts of vaccines like polio (which my father caught as a child), measles, mumps, rubella, tuberculosis, and I have been able to travel abroad to India and Africa and Asia because of vaccinations against some very nasty diseases like malaria, hepatitis and typhoid. I have not known people as my parents did who died from a rose thorn or rusty nail going through a shoe. And therefore I have known far fewer people whose children died in childhood because of illnesses that we barely recognise today. How lucky are we.

feelingverylazytoday · 02/08/2020 17:34

@a12345b

Ill wait for people at the government to have it first
Lol, I'm sure they'll all be having at the earliest possible opportunity.
DuckonaBike · 02/08/2020 17:35

Good grief yes, if anyone offered me the vaccine I would bite their arm off for it! Just hoping it won’t be too long.

BatShite · 02/08/2020 17:35

the flu vaccine cannot give you the flu it hasn't got live virus in it it's made from inactive flu virus.

I know it doesn't give people flu. But it does appear to be something that happens so often. Flu vaccine, followed by flu. I guess it might be a confirmation bias thing though, flu any other time is just flu, but after a vaccine its linked.

I am more worried than ever before about MIL with covid around, of course this is the year she chooses not to get her flu jab...

Thinking about it, this cannot be one of the herd immunity type vaccines surely? Because, only the high risk people are even allowed it round here..I was only ever offered it when pregnant (and took it) so..not seeing how it can possibly be one of the 'get it for the good of others' things?

Willow4987 · 02/08/2020 17:36

I’m undecided. I’m pro vaccine in general, take the flu jab and my DC have all their jabs etc but I’d want to know a bit more about this and the long term impacts of it. More for the DC than myself

Booq · 02/08/2020 17:36

Well, it will have been rushed because it would have been developed, tested and released within a year or two rather than the more normal ten plus years.

I mean, we're into semantics now.

What I mean by not rushed is: none of the individual stages have been completed quicker than they should be resulting in safety issues.

Process and stages have been completed alongside each other and been given regulatory and scientific review in a shorter timescale than they usually would.

In short, stuff that would have normally had to hang around waiting to be done because of other priorities, has not.

Thegereldine3000 · 02/08/2020 17:36

100% no

Hearhoovesthinkzebras · 02/08/2020 17:44

@Booq

Well, it will have been rushed because it would have been developed, tested and released within a year or two rather than the more normal ten plus years.

I mean, we're into semantics now.

What I mean by not rushed is: none of the individual stages have been completed quicker than they should be resulting in safety issues.

Process and stages have been completed alongside each other and been given regulatory and scientific review in a shorter timescale than they usually would.

In short, stuff that would have normally had to hang around waiting to be done because of other priorities, has not.

It's not semantics.

Presumably, in the normal development and testing process time can be spent studying how the vaccine or drug performs over a lot longer than twelve months. If, and it's a big if, they can release a vaccine by Spring next year it would only have had 6 - 8 months observation in human subjects. Will they even know basic stuff by then like how long immunity lasts? Will they know if it adversely affects pregnancy or unborn babies? What side effects might occur after repeated doses?

Angel2702 · 02/08/2020 17:47

Yes I tried to volunteer for the trials.

Jussayingisall · 02/08/2020 18:05

Well like I said earlier. Russia are going to vaccine stage now, so that will be a good indicator for the no people. If they all turn in to zombies then you were right to say no.