How much would you pay for your child's vaccine?

[AtLastEarwax]

This is just off the top of my head...

Say a vaccine was approved for children

It was going to become available on the NHS but is available to buy privately beforehand
Q&As
Would you buy it or wait? *buy it
How much would you be willing to spend? *£150 pc

Simple curiosity that's all

Zero the kids don’t need it and I’m not willing to do it. Have had all other vaccines other than rotavirus for the same reasons.

I do think if we had enough vaccine for absolutely every adult they should make it available privately. Would ease pressure on the NHS and provide funding to cover some of the cost. Not for a jumping I might add, just if they had enough for all adults.

Maybe up to £200 each, would be a huge stretch for us money wise but would pay more if I could afford it.

Oh and about £500 for the adults in that situation.

I'm going to take your post at face value OP and not join other in descending in a theoretical debate about how healthcare should be free and how no one should be "skipping the queue" as I'm sure that's not what you were talking about.

So, hypothetically if we had the option to pay for a vaccine for children that was proved to be safe bla bla bla, I'd pay as much as I could afford for him to have it. It would be worth the peace of mind. I'd say anything up to £1000

An honesty box/pay what you can would be a good theory but I don't think good in practice!

If 26 million people put 1p in the pot though it would be something than nothing I suppose

Surely if you thought it would save your child's life or your life there would be no price you wouldn't pay?

I was talking about adults paying 1p

I would pay for my children

@IceCreamAndCandyfloss

They wouldn’t be queue jumping though if the private vaccines were from a different order and supply.

Of course they would. The vaccine supply is the rate limiting step.

In the present time, the vaccine shouldn't be available for anyone to pay for privately. Just because someone can afford it doesn't mean they should jump the queue! Why should one person's child be more important than any other person?
The NHS was set up to make healthcare free at the point of delivery for all so paying for vaccine priority is so wrong.

We wouldn't want to pay more than £500.

i pay for flu jabs for my teens who are not eligable through school/nhs vaccination programme, in order to protect a vulnerable child in the home.
i'll do likewise with the covid jab if needed.
no price is too high to keep my dc safe protected.

Up to £1000.

I'm very concerned about asymptomatic transmission to other adult members of the household , who are yet to be vaccinated.

Everybody knows that children (excluding CEV) are unlikely to be seriously ill with C19. That isn't the issue. If secondary schools are to be reopened on March 8th, without any new risk mitigation strategies, community transmission will increase again.

There is no way to predict how severely an adult with no risk factors, will be affected by C19. Having come close to losing 2 close family members, both with young DC; I want to be fully assured that secondary schools are safe on March 8th.

Why not pay to vaccinate the adults then instead?

I’m surprised at the answers given the amount of people who expect baby milk and calpol free for their children!

Nothing. Both my children have tested positive for covid. Both were asymptomatic.

I paid for chicken pox vaccine for 2 kids and meningitis B for the oldest. Can’t remember how much exactly but if they were under £1000 I’d pay it if I thought they needed it no questions (assuming this is hypothetical, both mine have tested positive for covid and had zero symptoms) anything above that amount roughly of have to be doing serious research into costs/ benefit and I’d be losing sleep probably over the decision.

I wouldn’t pay anything as my children are not at risk from covid. I did, however, pay for a private chicken pox vaccine for them. More children died from complications of chicken pox than of covid last year.

I would pay anything asked as I expect it will be a condition of entry to my birth country in the future and I want my DC to see their grandparents again at some point in the next few years.

This shouldn’t happen, obviously. The vaccines are in short supply and should be allocated on an agreed priority basis.

But if it was happening then I would pay. I don’t want my kids getting long Covid or post Covid inflammatory syndrome and I don’t want them transmitting it to the vulnerable we have contact with. I want to go abroad. So I’d pay what it cost, particularly for a vaccine that gave sterilising immunity.

I paid for chicken pox as well. Partly to protect DS but also partly to avoid the ball ache of being stuck abroad unable to travel if he came down with it.

DS was also shielding in the first wave. We worry about him with all infections but this one probably less so than some. Happily pay £150 but maybe up to £400?

If the vaccine was available privately AND taking it would not effect the supply for the vulnerable around the world I would pay as much as I can comfortably afford and prob a bit more to get the whole family done.

But that isn’t the world we’re living in.

I’d pay absolutely nothing because children don’t need vaccinating for Covid-19.

Honestly, I'd also prefer to wait a season to be reassured that there is no negative reaction from pathogenic priming once the vaccinated child encounters the natural coronavirus/cold. I get that some households have CEV members and would be eager to vaccinate however personally I'd prefer to see longer term studies before committing as children are generally low risk.

Which vaccine has been suggested? Would there be a risk from shedding if lots of students are vaccinated at the same time? Genuinely don't know that much about that side of it.

I'd also be interested in looking at the stats for A&E admissions for children over the last few winters to see how covid illness has affected them - it's hard to get an accurate picture from school absence because so many children have been asymptotic or had mild cases.

I paid for DS to have both varicella and Men B jabs and after all this, while I can afford it I’m happy to pay whatever to protect DS and those around him. I wish it were available now!
Also just to say the HPV jab absolutely protects boys as HPV is one of the main causes of oral and throat cancers as well as cervical cancer. Just to clear up any misconceptions on that score.