Will your teens be getting the covid vaccine

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Just that really I also posted this on Aibu but posted here as well to maximise traffic?

Yes to Pfizer.

Yes.

Absolutely not, no way.

Yes, my 14yr old has had it. She got Pfizer & was thrilled to get the opportunity.

I’m fully vaccinated but this about teens has come as a huge shock to me!

Definitely not 🙂 I am of the opinion that I would be keen to cause my child no harm 🙄 so why would I allow them to have a vaccine that can cause more harm than what it’s meant to protect them from. Kids have lost months of school and fun with friends to protect older more vulnerable people and now expected to take a vaccine to protect others so it’s a no from me. The government have messed up at every chance and let in new variants on a monthly basis but kids should never pay the price for that.

Yes

Definitely not.

The covid vaccines are too recent for long term safety data to exist.

My teens were approved for vaccination in early April (added to cat 6) and we are still waiting for Pfizer to become available in this part of London.

I have emailed, texted and repeatedly rung GP with no result, and am at my wits end.

You can't use online booking or open queue ups for u18s

It drives me crazy to see talk of extending age groups even lower, when they are still unable to offer all cat 6 the jab.

No. DH and I have had both vaccines because we believe the benefits outweigh the risks. My children 17 and 19 won’t be, it’s too soon and too much of a risk.

No. I've had mine, not because I'm concerned personally about Covid but for the greater good. It is a step too far for me to agree to my children being vaccinated to protect others who can (mostly) choose to protect themselves with the vaccine.

Mine have already said no when talk of children/teens being vaccinated. I agree with them as things stand at the moment. The vaccines are far too new for long term safety data/effects be known (look at the swine flu vaccine causing narcolepsy which has affected a close family member), the rhetoric has always been children are low risk so why vaccinate them (completely different if child/teen is at all vulnerable)? As standard in England unless vulnerable not all children were involved in flu rollout-think they are up to yr7 now yr8 this winter, so as long as risk to them remains the same it shouldn’t be rolled out to all. Lastly I also think more vulnerable people around the world need vaccinating before we start on children/teens

My dd is having her second Pfizer next week she's 17.

Yes

@Pinkchocolate

No. DH and I have had both vaccines because we believe the benefits outweigh the risks. My children 17 and 19 won’t be, it’s too soon and too much of a risk.

Can I ask if this is your choice or theirs? The reason I ask is obviously the 19 year old wouldn't need your consent. I feel for me the benefits outweighs the risks and am very much pro vaccine but I think im worried re my DC's as it's really me making a choice on their behalf. They don't get the flu jab so is this one necessary? It's really stopped me in my tracks as, as I've said, I'm totally pro vacinne

My daughter will decide for herself at 16, when our consent isn't necessary. She currently 14 and 3/4.

I've had my jab, DD's dad hasn't a refuses to, btw.

Yes definitely. With 30 million adults vaccinated, it is clear the risk is tiny and the benefits are huge.

Absolutely not. I’m appalled that so many parents think it’s a good idea to vaccinate children who rarely become seriously ill with COVID, and are keen to give them with vaccine that has been given Emergency Licence only and that we have no long term data on yet.

If the adult vaccination programme continues to go well, what is the reason for doing this as children rarely ever have serious symptoms, and most adults will be protected - well assumedly, but then we have no idea what the future will bring with potential ADE in the vaccinated, with immune escape causing variants and perhaps endless rounds of vaccinations.

Already has had both doses!

My 13 yr old is happy to have it, & I am happy for them to have it

Yes my 17 year old had Pfizer in January and March.

And I didnt need to consent for my 17 year old to have her vaccine, it wasn't required. She needed the vaccine for work and was happy to have it.

My 14 (nearly 15) year old doesn't want it and neither does my 17 year old. It's up to them. They are very wary as my dh had a stroke after AZ first dose. Consultant doesn't think it's due to the vaccine, but they are not reassured. I don't think my 2 in their twenties want it either.

Yes