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.

Yes certainly my eldest who will be going into year 11. It will have an enormous benefit to his mental health and maybe he will be able to start going out again properly.

Yes it's interesting that the chicken pox vaccine isn't offered routinely to children here when it has the potential to be so nasty. Will be paying for my 6YO to have it this summer as she still hasn't caught it and the DS suffered terribly.

[quote GiveMeNovocain]@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).[/quote]
Actually if you look it up it really isn't much different for meningitis B with a 0.6/100,000 chance of contracting it. There was some serious adverse reactions in the vaccination which included much less numbers than with the covid vaccine with something around 12% contracting nervous system disorders and some fatal outcomes. In England the rate of covid in school aged children in some areas is in the hundreds per 100,000 currently. But as I say people are unlikely to have researched into all that and to be honest neither did I until my friends child who got vaccinated at the same time as mine ended up critically ill as a result of the vaccine.

@jumpbounce 😂 as if meningitis isn't more of a risk than Covid.

Mine already have their sleeves rolled up waiting on it.

It absolutely staggers belief that there are so called parents out there who believe it's better their kid get infected with a virus, than have treatment to prevent it.

It's effectively child abuse to deny them this protection.

I’m a secondary teacher and applaud this. I have seen too much disrupted education due to this virus. We need to do everything in our power to break chains of transmission and schools are the only places where socially distancing doesn’t exist and masks aren’t allowed. We need to protect our young people.

[quote GiveMeNovocain]@jumpbounce 😂 as if meningitis isn't more of a risk than Covid.[/quote]
Around 50 children die a year from meningitis B and I think we are in the 20's for covid deaths in children in the UK and it also isn't spreading rapidly like covid. The chance of my child having a serious adverse reaction to the vaccine was much higher at around 12% than the miniscule 0.6% change that they would die from meningitis.

Not implying that meningitis is not worse than covid but if we are risk balancing the covid vaccine then why aren't we risk balancing all vaccines of things that pose very little risk to our children? Which let's be honest the majority of the things we vaccination against in childhood vaccinations present little to no risk to our children.

@jumpbounce

Not implying that meningitis is not worse than covid but if we are risk balancing the covid vaccine then why aren't we risk balancing all vaccines of things that pose very little risk to our children? Which let's be honest the majority of the things we vaccination against in childhood vaccinations present little to no risk to our children.

Well you do you but I'm very happy with my risk analysis of meningitis vs Covid for my child and will not be vaccinating her until it's fully approved and not subject to emergency authorisation.

DS is young enough that it not an issue for us but I do wish they'd do research on medically vulnerable children. My friends child is 7, he isn't in school, isn't seeing siblings etc because he's so high risk. A cold can put him in hospital let alone anything flu-like

Brilliant news! It really will be a weight off my mind, particularly for my 12 year old who has an extensive history of being hospitalised with minor coughs and colds triggering her asthma.

@strangeshapedpotato

It absolutely staggers belief that there are so called parents out there who believe it's better their kid get infected with a virus, than have treatment to prevent it.

It's effectively child abuse to deny them this protection.

What a ridiculous statement.

Yes. My 12 year old DD is desperate to have it. I’ve had both of mine. She sees it as another step closer to normality xx

I have a 13 year old and I'll leave it as her choice after a discussion about the benefits and risks. I've had mine but her dad won't, and we have an autistic 17 year old who can't deal with the sensory aspect of it so I doubt she'll have it either.

@SleepingStandingUp

DS is young enough that it not an issue for us but I do wish they'd do research on medically vulnerable children. My friends child is 7, he isn't in school, isn't seeing siblings etc because he's so high risk. A cold can put him in hospital let alone anything flu-like

Same situation for us although we have now returned the children to school after over a year out as cases currently in our area are extremely low and on a risk basis for us it is more likely our child contracts a normal run of the mill virus at the moment which also comes with risks and hospitalisation, however should cases begin to rise we would remove them again. We kept the siblings at home as well to avoid having to keep them apart. It's absolutely awful for many children around the country in similar circumstances and through circles of friends I am aware of quite a few but it has never once been acknowledged by the government.

No my children won't be getting it and as suggests above, if that's deemed child abuse then so be it.
Mine don't get the flu vaccination either.
We've been told for over a year that covid poses no risk to healthy children but I can see on the horizon the narrative that vaccinating our children is the way out of this mess
The goalposts are moved all the time.

Yes. Is CV due to severe learning disability. Unable to communicate when and how unwell. Doesn't cope with being ill. Wouldn't cope with hospital treatment. Wouldn't cope with self isolating. Unable to social distance from any staff that work with him and would go to school and respite during any lockdowns.

Not sure but the dc who is relevant isn’t 12 until Dec so a bit of time to think about it (and look at relative risk)

I absolutely would but mine are both too young. My three year old was on the shielding list due to having a condition that makes him prone to respiratory infections. In the past he has been ventilated for a common cold. I wish there was a vaccine for him, or failing that one for his six year old brother.

Children who are clinically vulnerable have been absolutely forgotten.

Our youngest falls into this age group. They’ll decide for themselves but we won’t be encouraging it. At the moment they’re saying no and I’m hoping it stays that way.

Yes, mine are 12 and 15. My eldest would I am sure take it even if we did not consent and he’s clever enough to make his own decision

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.

This! It is a global pandemic, we are all one world, why are we talking of vaccinating healthy very low risk children when other countries haven't vaccinated the vulnerable.

You could also say we shouldn’t be vaccinating 18 year olds when people in other countries need it most. But we are.

I have two in this age group and would jump at the chance for them to have it.

No. Not wanting to vaccine my 12 year old- not sure the need to vaccinate such young kids.

Will wait a couple of years at least (if at all)