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!

@Roselilly36

No, can’t see why healthy children would need it.

Maybe to help protect all the children who are vulnerable and can’t have the vaccine?

One thing has become very clear and that’s a large part of the public is not educated at all on the reasons for and benefits of vaccination programmes in general.

Assuming it’s found appropriate/safe to give to children, then absolutely yes. My two are desperate to have the vaccine and actually asked if they could be signed up for the Astra Zeneca trial (we live too far away though).

[quote Kimye4eva]@bumbleymummy in which case why are we bothering to vaccinate people who have had covid? Isn’t that a complete waste?[/quote]
@Kimye4evaLogistically it’s easier to vaccinate everyone in a group rather than test for antibodies first.

There have been some studies showing that a single dose in previously infected individuals produces a stronger immune response than two doses in someone who wasn’t previously infected. So perhaps policy will change if there are shortages.

@TheRedBalloon

I've had the first jab but I'd be very hesitant about letting DS have it. He's had all his jabs apart from MMR and gets the flu jab each year but I'm wary... Maybe once it's been thoroughly tested.

I’d suggest that your son is more at risk by a long way from not having MMR than from having the Covid jab

Absolutely not. The risks of the vaccine are still being characterised, and the risks to children from COVID are minuscule.

At risk children can be vaccinated if necessary to minimise possibility of severe illness.

The risk of ADE is still completely unknown for any age group. And we won't know if it's a risk or not for some years to come.

But you wouldn’t need to test for antibodies @bumbleymummy. The nhs have details of everyone who has recorded a positive test.

@AliceAliceWhoTheFook

We don’t need to vaccinate all children to reach herd immunity levels - between vaccinating vulnerable adults and immunity after natural infection. Remember that a lot of children have already had covid and are immune. Even more will be by the time the vaccines get rolled out.

I would like to see antibody testing in this group to see what level of immunity there already is.

@daffodilsandprimroses

My personal feeling is that vaccinations should be given to the individual who will benefit from it. I don’t believe it is right or moral to vaccinate a child to benefit others. So while I am not anti vax nor am I someone who will vaccinate my children and ask them to take a risk to benefit someone else.

Guess you have healthy children then. What about the kids that already suffer and are CEV?!

@Kimye4eva

But you wouldn’t need to test for antibodies *@bumbleymummy*. The nhs have details of everyone who has recorded a positive test.

A large percentage of cases are asymptomatic and wouldn’t have been tested.

And some people would want to be vaccinated anyway. So it’s easier to just invite everyone. It doesn’t mean that natural immunity is inferior.

Then they can have the vaccine alice

It is morally wrong to try to demand all children have a vaccination purely for the benefit of others.

Absolutely. Will protect against long COVID, make school closure / periods of missing school due to isolation less likely, reduce levels of the virus generally and protect teachers.

It's a no brainer for me.

Yes absolutely, in the same way I’m happy for them to have all the usual vaccinations.

At the moment, no, I would not give consent. I have been vaccinated as has my DH

Mine will be 17 & 18 by then so 100% their decision. If mine were younger then I am not so sure due to many reasons stated above, I think I would feel under massive pressure to do it though.

No. Children don't suffer and the rest of us will be vaccinated.

@confuseddotcom090

Absolutely not. The risks of the vaccine are still being characterised, and the risks to children from COVID are minuscule.

At risk children can be vaccinated if necessary to minimise possibility of severe illness.

The risk of ADE is still completely unknown for any age group. And we won't know if it's a risk or not for some years to come.

Well said the risk of ADE is not yet known but we do know ADE killed vaccinated animals in previous mRNA trials which is why previous mRNA "vaccines" were never rolled out to humans before.

Geert Vanden Bosche also fears;
Mass infection prevention and mass vaccination with leaky Covid-19 vaccines in the midst of the pandemic can only breed highly infectious variants.
www.geertvandenbossche.org/

Yes. We pay for DS to get a flujab every year as well as he is jtoo old to be in the yearly children's nasal flu vaccine programme.

He has had every other vaccine, not sure why we would refuse this one

What about disruption to their education as a reason to vaccinate? The more kids vaccinated the less likely bubbles bursting/kids isolating etc.

@daffodilsandprimroses

Then they can have the vaccine alice

It is morally wrong to try to demand all children have a vaccination purely for the benefit of others.

No it's not morally wrong. It's morally wrong what you're suggesting. But I don't arrive with ignorance. It's a waste of my time

It is not ignorant to suggest that the people who are in need of the vaccine are vaccinated

@NoGoodPunsLeft

What about disruption to their education as a reason to vaccinate? The more kids vaccinated the less likely bubbles bursting/kids isolating etc.

But isn't that just as likely as now. The vaccine isn't 100 per cent and there will still be cases for years to come, surely we won't be sending children home in the future if they have been near a Covid case?

Will it be an appropriate dose? Middle aged people I know are being hit hard by the side effects when elderly people were fine. I'm in my thirties and terrified of getting it, I've had covid, that wasn't as bad.

A drug that hasn't been fully tested for long term effects? Not a chance!

Nope.

Interesting opinion piece from a professor of experimental immunology in the Irish Times:

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/opinion/covid-vaccine-could-be-conserved-by-excluding-the-already-infected-1.4453302%3fmode=amp