Would you vaccinate your child?

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Have just seen a post (in the daily Mail, sorry) suggesting that all over 12s could be offered a vaccine from September. It made mention of the AZ vaccine trials in children above 6 so I am unsure whether this vaccine is one of the ones planned for use?

This was along side the news that the az vaccine carries a 1 in 126000 chance of death.

Bearing in mind that 14 people under 20 have died of Covid.

How is this a sensible risk/benefit analysis?!

I am in my late 30s and when I did the Covid calculator my risk of dying if I caught Covid (which is obviously not a guaranteed thing) is 1 in 145000 so I am assuming the risk for a 12 year old is thousands of times less than that.

Who would vaccinate their children?

No I don't think I would.

@Oblomov21

I have a question. Are they offering vaccinations to children yet? In certain parts of the country.

My friend who had cancer so is considered immunocompromised, had had 2, as has her Dh. Now her dd, aged 17 has had her first.

She asked if our ds's have been offered. They haven't. I've had 2, Dh 1, ds's none. Am I supposed to ask?

No - I would imagine your friend's dd had it because she is in the household of someone immunocompromised (they recently started doing this). As she is 17 she would have had Pfizer, which is suitable for over 16s.