Will under 50s get the vaccine?

[FairyAtTheBottomOfTheGarden]

This is the order of who will get the Covid-19 vaccine (according to BBC)

1. Residents in care homes for older adults and their carers
2. 80-year-olds and over and frontline health and social care workers
3. 75-year-olds and over
4. 70-year-olds and over and clinically extremely vulnerable individuals
5. 65-year-olds and over
6. 16 to 64-year-olds with serious underlying health conditions
7. 60-year-olds and over
8. 55-year-olds and over
9. 50-year-olds and over

But it doesn't say anything about under 50s with no underlying health conditions. I assume everyone WILL get it in time, won't we?

Covid will be gone by then!

Surely if they dont decide to vax under 50 they will HAVE to relax the prohibition of it being sold privately.!
As long as it does prevent or slow spread i think they will vax as many as possible
Because some people cant be vax
The vax is only 95% effective. Though i think does still prevent severe illness.
Otherwise all the immuocompromised and likely people with allergies etc will be very angry.
If 1% of the deaths are under 50? Thats 600 but thats for 10% population so it would be 6000 if we let rip through the younger people. Then you have to add all the people who couldnt be vaxxed . And the elderly for whom the vax didn't take at all.

No-one will be allowed to pay for it - not under current guidelines. It’s to stop people queue jumping or hogging the vaccine supplies.

@DryRoastPeanut

I read that 16-49 year olds were bottom of the list, but if you think about it, once all the others have been vaccinated then the 16-49’s will be pretty safe. The virus will have nowhere to go to spread if the rest of the population is vaccinated already.

Yes, and low risk people should be able to re-start their lives once the vulnerable are protected.

I think they will eventually. There’s a lot of under 50s to catch it, spread it, etc. Yes, spread will be less if everyone over 50 is vaccinated and vulnerable people. But it will still happen. Remember at least 10% possibly more of those vaccinated it won’t have been effective,so they’d still be at risk.

Long covid will become more of an issue for under 50s with the resulting implications of long term poor health and the cost implementing of treatment. The govt will want to stop this as much as possible. I know a number of people under 50 who have long covid and still aren’t back at work.

So yes, it might be next summer/autumn/winter but eventually yes.

@nicky7654

Covid will be gone by then!

I wish but I doubt it. Covid is here for ever, like the flu.

In the US they said that every adult who wants it will get it.

Yes we will eventually. There are several vaccines coming through, and government have pre-ordered the others too.

Im on a long covid fb group and some 20yo are starting their own group for chat which is obviously concerning that there are enough of them!

As a country long term it could be much worse for us to have all the young catching it -multiple times

is it right for us to use millions of vaccinations on healthy people when other countries may struggle to get enough to vaccinate their vulnerable people?
Yes. We need to vaccinate as many people as possible. Younger people aren’t dying but that’s not the only issue; it’s about people who don’t die being hospitalised or suffering from long Covid, and about the economic impact of people having to take time off work. In the long term I can foresee the vaccine companies holding some doses back to sell at high prices and I’d be willing to pay for that. We already have a two tier society where some people can afford to pay for vaccines such as chickenpox.

The plan is to offer it to everyone over 18 (possibly even 16). The Imperial team is developing a vaccine that they hope will be approved by mid 2021. It will be cheap and readily available in large numbers, both for the UK and lower income countries.

It's amazing to see the number of people who are concerned we won't have enough doses to supply all the adults in the nation compared to the number of people who are concerned that they will be manipulated into an unwanted vaccine, the number of people who think the government are covertly injecting them with a tracking device compared to the number who don't think we can manage the logistics of keeping the vaccines cold enough and thawed correctly, the number of people who think we have hardly any vaccines to make a dent and the number who think we are hoarding all the vaccines to ourselves.

My 83 year old very vulnerable DM has had a letter today saying she is a priority and they hope to get to her at the end of March 2021. Don't hold your breath.

@FourTeaFallOut

I absolutely think they'll make it available to those under 50.

I hope so as I wonder if we'll be able to travel without it. I think Qantas has said you won't be able to fly with them if you're not vaccinated. I can't help thinking if that happens other things will be affected.

Easy for Quantas to say that now but they are in such financial trouble that I can't imagine they will turn customers away once people are flying again- they will probably require a negative test result instead and/or quarantine.

The alternative is that people from the UK are barred from Australia unless they are over 50/vulnerable/NHS staff!

Once COVAX commitments have been met, then I think private supplies of vaccine will start appearing, so holiday makers will be able to get it that way.

The government has ordered so many doses that every adult who wants a jab should be able to get one. And they are starting some paediatric testing (down to age 12 in first instance). It's just a case of which order people get it

Qantas is supported by the Aussie government already, so I don't think there are likely to be any major repercussions to the decision to require evidence of vaccination (and I hope that medical evidence of exemption will also be acceptable, if not initially then at least before too long)

I should think we will, but maybe not in 2021. We’ll get it eventually.

If it’s not offered for free on NHS to under 50s, I’ll pay ££££ for it.

I fail to understand how 'life will return to normal' if measures are lifted without the under-50s being vaccinated (which I can't see happening in 2021).

The virus will still be ripping through schools and universities and large numbers of working age adults will still be catching it. They won't (statistically) be hospitalised or dying in huge numbers but I think the long Covid rates could be pretty awful if it's left unchecked in the younger population.

@Osirus

I should think we will, but maybe not in 2021. We’ll get it eventually.

If it’s not offered for free on NHS to under 50s, I’ll pay ££££ for it.

How will you buy it, though? It can’t be bought. Not in the U.K.

If you’re under 50 with no underlying health conditions then it’s pretty pointless getting vaccinated

Yes the under 50s will be. The govt has invested in 4 vaccines. So there will be enough doses when the time comes. There's nothing to suggest it will have to be paid for.

The UK government made early orders of 340 million doses from vaccines in production - a risk if some were no good, but looking rather better now.

That is an enormous oversupply for a population of around 70m (around 52 m of whom are adult) - it would give everyone two doses, twice and have plenty to spare.

So I hope that we will surrender some orders so that other nations can immunise their most vulnerable (COVAX obligations)

@AlecTrevelyan006

If you’re under 50 with no underlying health conditions then it’s pretty pointless getting vaccinated

I think that’s a common misconception. One icu doctor said they had more men in their forties In icu than people over 80. There is also long covid which appears age independent.

We having an aging population, so those first groups constitute such a large number of the population that, even if under 50s don't get the jab for a while, it will reduce risk for the rest of us. You need about at least 50% of the population vaccinated to have an impact on the R number and bring down infection rates.

Yes. Everyone will need to get the vaccine for this thing to finally end...it is just a question of when this will be feasible once the high risk categories have been vaccinated.

If not you will have people who will end up being barred from doing things like flying/going on holiday and in some public events because some companies will insist on proof of vaccine.

Not to mention the fact that being under 40 does not mean the virus won't kill some people or leave them with long-term effects...