Pfizer approved for 12-15 year olds

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Just seen this.
The UK regulator has said the benefits outweigh the risks in giving it to 12-15yo.

Would you let your child have it? I'm very conflicted on this.

My child is thankfully just below the age range but I would be refusing at this point in time. I took the risk of a new vaccine for me because I felt the benefits outweigh the risk I'm not convinced the same is true for my child

I fear unlocking will be pushed back and this used as our next carrot on a stick to get back to normality.

My children are toddlers but if they were older then no I wouldn’t want them having the vaccine

Yes I would let them have it, although it would be their choice, they wanted to be in trails though
This is why we have regulators funnily enough

My son is 18 months old and I have decided i want 10 years of research before I even consider this vaccination for him. But he is very young. If I had older teens 12+ I probably wouldn’t hesitate.

My 12 year old is still not better from having Covid in autumn, so I’d be all for vaccinating him and his sibling.

*Trials

Yes mine will be having it even though she has already had covid. Hopefully it helps the spread.

This is a hard one for me. I'm very pro-vaccine and also vulnerable so jumped at the chance to have my Pfizer jab and aside from feeling a bit bleurgh after I was fine, no issues whatsoever.

However, I know that had I got Covid the chances of me getting very unwell was high, the same just isn't the case for my DC's. Despite the absolute miracle these vaccines have performed for adults it would be a lie to suggest that there have been no safety concerns and it has all gone perfectly. It hasn't, people have died, and I am a hugely risk-averse parent.

DD is 13 and I really, really don't know.

My children are 13 and 15 and yes they will be having the vaccine

Our DS is 13.
DH and I have had both jabs but I'm just wary about allowing DS to have it, I'm not sure enough info exists about any longer term side effects.

My 13 year old has said he would have a vaccine and I’d happily facilitate this when it’s offered. His younger brother was very ill with Covid and still quite poorly a year on, he lost 7lb of his small body weight and still hasn’t regained it so the effects on him have been significant.

Unfortunately we are far below the age limit even with a vulnerable child. I would 100% be giving it to my children after my DC caught a normal virus and ended up with life long complications that could have been avoided and I feel the risk of them being exposed to or contracting covid is much higher. It also didn't come to light immediately, we are now almost 5 years on from contracting the virus and only in the last 18 months is the long term impact coming to light so these long term impacts on children may not immediately come to light with covid either.

My 15 year old would choose to have it, yes.

In the same way I consent for my primary age child to have a flu vaccine every year, it helps to stop the transmission to more vunerable people.

Yes DS will have it. He volunteered for the trial although he wasn't picked.

@Ozanj

My son is 18 months old and I have decided i want 10 years of research before I even consider this vaccination for him. But he is very young. If I had older teens 12+ I probably wouldn’t hesitate.

I presume your toddler hasn't had their normal vaccinations either then as that schedule was changed with a new meningitis vaccine in 2015/2016 so there hasn't been 10 years worth of real life evidence for that vaccine either. But most people I know didn't even realise it was a new vaccine because they never stopped to question it and just went ahead with the childhood vaccinations yet are massively questioning this covid vaccine.

I will be encouraging my DCs to have the vaccine. I see the long term effects of viruses on people's functioning at work, and would be worried more about long Covid than the side effects of the vaccine.
My understanding of how the vaccine was developed is that we know more about the vaccine than we know about Covid- especially with it being a virus and it's ability to mutate.

My kids are toddler and preschool age and would definitely get them the vaccine if it was approved for their age.

Dd has said she'll have it. I'm immune suppressed and nobody knows how well the vaccine will work on me.

I would for my exam aged children (GCSE & A level) as even though they aren't particularly at risk from covid their education has been disrupted enough. I'm hoping that vaccinated children wouldn't have to isolate if another pupil became sick and that enough kids get vaccinated to slow the spread in schools.

Yes, and thank goodness my youngest will be 12 in the autumn so can have it too. Fantastic news!

Yes, if offered and evaluated as safe by mhra and approved for use by JvcI, I would vaccinate my 8 year old.

I’m sure there are plenty of vaccinations we give to our children that haven’t had as many person-hours history of use as this.

Off the top of my head, the whooping cough vaccine in third trimester (since 2012 in U.K.) and the rotavirus vaccine (since 2013 in UK but since 2006 in US)..

definitely would allow. But we should NOT be vaccinating children while other countries are so low on vaccines. We need to make sure they are distributed equally first so that elderly/essential workers are vaccinated throughout the world before we consider a child vaccination programme.

@jumpbounce the risk benefit ratio is vastly different for meningitis than Covid. I paid for that vaccine and chicken pox but Covid is likely to be shrugged off so I won't be having dd vaccinated for that if it's approved for her age (10).

I will not be vaccinating my 13 year old.

I've had the vaccine, benefits outweigh risks for me in my 50's.

For a 13 year old it's the other way - risks outweigh benefits. The risks of Covid are minuscule for DD but I do remember the swine flu vaccine causing narcolepsy in children.