Would you vaccinate your children?

[mrsnw]

So children could possibly be vaccinated by the autumn term. I've had the vaccine and my children have had all the other available jabs including flu. I'm not sure where I stand with this one and I don't know why!

Nope!

No and have had both jabs. My kids have had the chickenpox, men b when you had to pay as well all the other usual vaccines.
But I wouldn’t give them this any time soon. The side effects were the worst I have ever had from a vaccine. Children are barely affected by the illness so why would I put them through that.

I do not understand how parents who have never bothered to vaccinate their children from chicken pox, for instance, a tried and tested vaccine, a disease that makes children miserably ill for weeks and many children die from each year, would rush to vaccinate them against something they are barely affected by. Or men b, the vaccine has been part of our programme for a few years. Children over the age of 6 missed the boat yet friends that have plenty of money still haven’t bothered to get their older kids done. It utterly baffles me,

Yes, and I’ll be relieved when they can be vaccinated.
My worst fear (beyond them dying of Covid, obviously, but that’s extremely unlikely) is long Covid, which does affect a percentage of children, and which could possibly leave them with lifetime damage to their lungs or organs or immune system.
Any vaccine that is approved for them will be safe. It’ll protect them and also everyone else, too.

Yes, mine are in double figures so one already counts as an adult when dosing medications and the other isn't far behind.

I would vaccinate my 1year old in a heartbeat if it was available and approved for her age group. That's my job as a parent, to protect her, and vaccination is the best way to do that.

Covid the disease is still new and unusual enough that we don't understand what the long term impacts on children (or adults, for that matter) could be, and might not for some years until they get older. What is clear though is that even mild or symptomless cases of Covid can damage the body significantly, potentially long term - for instance, this group found heart damage in student athletes who only had mild or asymptomatic cases. Just because you can't see it, doesn't mean the virus isn't damaging your organs. Why would I risk incurring something like heart damage to my daughter when there will be a safe, easy vaccine to prevent or reduce that risk?

theconversation.com/even-if-youre-asymptomatic-covid-19-can-harm-your-heart-study-shows-heres-what-student-athletes-need-to-know-149243

Yes

We will all be forced to take , look what happens in Israel- they even vaccinate pregnant women not to even mention children. Those who refuse become public enemy number one. I will not be taking it or allowing my children to take it out of free will!

Just so long as you're ok with getting the virus some time, Sparrow.

Yes, we signed them up for the clinical trial too. Haven't heard anything so I'm assuming they've got enough kids.

Yes, as soon as it was deemed fine for children I would vaccinate my children, if I had any under 18. As it is dd is 18y and will be getting hers as soon as she is called.

Yes. To protect teachers

@HedgeSparrows

Yes. To protect teachers

Teachers will have been offered it way before children will.

yes.

Dd1 is old enough to consent herself and she wants it anyway.

Dd2 I would. I didn't consent to the swine flu jab when she was a baby, the only one I didn't consent to. But that was for reasons relating to her personally had it been dd1 I would have. The reasons aren't as relevent any more so I would consent.

Nope. Let immune systems do their job.
They've never had the flu jab either.

Yes of course! Nobody’s suggesting kids take it before it’s gone through all the appropriate checks.

@Ephe17

Inject my baby with an experimental therapy? Not a fucking chance.

How is it experimental therapy?

@MyOtherProfile

Just so long as you're ok with getting the virus some time, Sparrow.

Yep, have had Covid already! And so have my kids, theoretically we should have immunity. We had it quite bad but still to me the risk of an experimental vaccine are far higher. I don't care about feeling rough as people have reported after the vaccine but I do have huge concerns over the long term effects . I don't know about all COVID vaccines but certainly AZ and Pfizer are at their trial stages , expecting to complete in 2023.

Dd is 18yo and has had her first dose. But even if she’d been younger I’d have been very happy for her to have it.

Sparrow, you know AZ phase 3 trials have finished now, right? And that people have been getting Covid twice because immunity doesn't seem to last as long as hoped.

@daffodilsandprimroses

I’ve never liked that either zo. It also used to be the case that teenage girls were given the rubella jab rather than all babies.

Rubella presents little risk to children, not very much to adults, but massive risk to unborn children if the mother contracts it during pregnancy. Miscarriage, stillbirth, or devastating birth defects in 90% of cases when the mother contracts rubella between 11 and 16 weeks.

Teenage girls were vaccinated to protect their future babies. Still dislike it?

Later, they figured out it made sense to vaccinate teenage boys as well, because the less virus is circulating, the less risk there is to the babies of women who didn't get vaccinated as teenagers, or those for whom it didn't work.

Then they eventually rolled it into the childhood immunisation programme. It does protect the child receiving the shot, although the risk of what it's protecting them from is low. However, it is also protecting future generations. Do you dislike that?

Yes definitely

@MyOtherProfile

Sparrow, you know AZ phase 3 trials have finished now, right? And that people have been getting Covid twice because immunity doesn't seem to last as long as hoped.

Studies have shown it lasts 6-8+ months in the majority of people. Incidence of reinfection is quite low even a year later.

I know puzzled

So in other words we still make babies have a vaccination they don’t need for adult women.

It doesn’t sit comfortably with me.

"Yes, we signed them up for the clinical trial too. Haven't heard anything so I'm assuming they've got enough kids"

@MrsWombat is that a joke?!

Why would it be a joke?