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!

All had covid that should read

No, I have had mine but I am a consenting adult happy to be a part of the trial.

Absolutely not! I regret my own vaccination and wish I’d waited for the protein based vaccine. I live in a rural area and don’t think my risk was high enough to warrant a vaccine that is proving to cause death and debilitating illness in people my age. I don’t know anyone my age that has been serious ill with COVID yet know of two young people who have been rushed to hospital post vaccine after taking ill.

No because all 3 of mine have had it/got it. My eldest had no symptoms and is now negative after 2 weeks. My middle child is positive but only has mild cough that is almost gone and baby age 9 months had it with mild cough that lasted 4 days and back to normal.

Yes I would. They also wanted to volunteer for trials but couldn’t

So it would be their choice anyway

No way

No absolutely not.

Well, my child is a fully grown adult now. However, I'm absolutely gobsmacked at the number of posters who would be willing to offer up their child to have an experimental, emergency-approved only vaccine, still undergoing trials until 2023 (Ref: WHO) where the potential side effects are still unknown. Poor, poor children.

My ds is 16 and 4 weeks post his first pfeizer jab.

I'd had both mine by the time he had his first and I did allow him to make the decision himself.

Yes

No.

Covid is likely to be a very mild illness in children. Their other vaccines have been given to decrease their chance of severe childhood illnesses or HPV related cancer.

I suppose the exception is rubella which is generally just like a cold in children but is given to ensure there is population immunity so pregnant women don’t contract it.

Still mulling this one over. Leaning towards no.

No. The trials on kids are not safety trials they are efficacy trials (small no’s of participants). USA is rolling out widely though and investigating myocarditis signal. I personally won’t take risk for mine given it’s mostly a mild disease. Just because mRNA is exceptionally safe in adults doesn’t mean same will be found with children.

Yes

@Baluchistan95

Well, my child is a fully grown adult now. However, I'm absolutely gobsmacked at the number of posters who would be willing to offer up their child to have an experimental, emergency-approved only vaccine, still undergoing trials until 2023 (Ref: WHO) where the potential side effects are still unknown. Poor, poor children.

Maybe we don't like the alternative of infection with a novel, poorly understood pathogen in our overcrowded schools, the ideal breeding ground for a pandemic.

Maybe we have children who, if adults, would have been in a priority group as CEV or CV. So vulnerable to covid. Very little mitigation exists for them.

Don't bother to pity our children, thanks, we are doing our best for them.

My children are 7 and 3 and no, I wouldn’t be happy to have them vaccinated.

I'm torn on this one. Me and dh had both jabs. But the side effects of the vaccine are still being researched and I don't think there is much data for children yet.

Dd is 17 this year and will leave the decision up to her. Ds is 7 so will need to decide for him but hoping it's a while and there is more data before we get to his age group.

I realise how selfish that is, that I want other dcs to have the jab before mine but I imagine a lot of parents feel the same.

No. Have a 12 year old DD who has had every other vaccination going but she won’t be getting this one. I had a poor reaction to the Pfizer, the dose was too strong for me, I have a slight frame. She is still growing and relatively light. We did all the flu jabs for all 4 kids in 2020 to help the NHS, but this one just no. We will be doing the HPV vaccine because that benefits her. I am done with our children being the sacrificial lambs for this virus. If my child were CEV or CV then yes.

The only ethical dilemma for me remains if they have CV/CEV children in their classes who would benefit from their friends being vaccinated too.

My dad is 17 and is CV and she is due her second pfizer jab next week, she had the vaccine to protect herself and her CEV dad it was a no brainier for our situation after shielding for a year.

However

Had she been younger with no health issues I have to say that I probably
Would have waited until more data on vaccinating young people was available, so completely understand why parents are being cautious.

Dd not dad🙄

Absolutely not.

Absolutely, without a second thought.

If and when children start dying or becoming disabled in big, big numbers from any disease, I'll look into vaccination for mine. Not necessarily go ahead, but become open to considering it. I would still weigh up the risks on both sides even in that situation before going ahead, and would be pressing the government about developing effective new treatments as the main priority over new vaccines.

I would vaccinate them without a shadow of a doubt. They've had all their other vaccines but My ex would probably put up a fight about it though :(