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?

We have told our 12yr old they will be eligible soon and that they have the final decision as to weather they have it...currently they are thinking about it, asking questions and figuring it out for themselves.
Not easy as they have one parent who has willingly had the vaccine and the other has refused..
Although as their parents we have agreed there will be no bias on either side, the decision is theirs and theirs alone.

My asthmatic 17 year old has had 2 Pfizers. We feel relieved. He had zero side effects.

Absolutely on the fence with this one. I chatted to the nurse that give my 2nd jab yesterday and she felt the same.

Then we agreed that more likely though if it was the blocker to a summer holiday we'd probably elbow our way up the queue to get them done 

On a serious note, I'm with @Watapalava insofar as I think all the top down and vulnerable should be vaccinated. I'm losing tolerance with adult people in places with high cases and low vac take up.

Whoop, whoop!

I must have sounded really pathetic on the last phone to the surgery, as we got end-of-the-day Pfizer for the DC today. So relieved!

OK, it'll take a while for immunity to build but at least it's happened.

Yes, DS wants it, and we support him (DH and I got the Pfizer too)

STill on the fence.
Most likely yes, as long covid in children is looking concerning.

I’m another who’s on the fence, I’m not convinced about my daughter having it. I’ve heard and read about how safe it is but I just have a niggling feeling and so do some clinical professionals that I work with.

On the fence, but swaying towards No. My DH is adamant NO on the subject though so maybe the decision is already made

Up to them.

For those saying yours are having it, are you giving them a free choice or are you going to insist even if they express reservations?

No.

Definitely not

@Notthemessiah

Up to them.

For those saying yours are having it, are you giving them a free choice or are you going to insist even if they express reservations?

Of course, it's completely their choice. They 100% want it

For those saying no, not really your choice if your teen wants it. What will you do in that situation?

Yes

@ineedaholidaynow I don't want my teen to have it due to my own bad reaction to astrazeneca and their dad's bad reaction to moderna and the data about myocardia in his age group the risks of the vaccine are higher than covid for me. If they decide to go ahead with it then I will have to respect their decision

@ineedaholidaynow

For those saying no, not really your choice if your teen wants it. What will you do in that situation?

My teens trust and respect me. They'll do what I ask them. I'll probably also explain to them that there is no risk to them from Covid, no long term safety data for the vaccine at all, especially in adolescents, some emerging risk of heart problems and absolutely no point in putting themselves at risk from a new vaccine for zero benefit.

@CarPanic you can't tell them there is no risk to them from COVID. You can tell them about the risks of vaccines, but you need to discuss things like long COVID to give them a balanced view.

[quote ineedaholidaynow]@CarPanic you can't tell them there is no risk to them from COVID. You can tell them about the risks of vaccines, but you need to discuss things like long COVID to give them a balanced view.[/quote]
I absolutely can tell them that there's no risk of them dying from Covid. In fact there's a much, much, much higher risk of anyone dying from AZ than of kids dying from Covid. If any kind of similar side-effect emerged (and we have no long-term safety data on Pfizer and actually very little short-term safety data in adolescents) the vaccine would be far more of a danger than Covid. The link between Pfizer and myocarditis is getting stronger too.

The risk of 'long covid' in teens is still not clear, but plenty of viruses have the potential to cause long-term effects in a rare minority. It doesn't mean that it's worth injecting them with a relatively untested vaccine and hoping that we've picked the right risk. I can see that 'long Covid' is going to be the attempted scare tactic but there just isn't the evidence to back it up with and my teens absolutely will not be vaccinated against this harmless virus.

And if they say they want it, I assume they can go against your wishes @CarPanic, if they are Gillick competent

@ineedaholidaynow

And if they say they want it, I assume they can go against your wishes *@CarPanic*, if they are Gillick competent

Yeah but they won't. Like I said, they trust and respect me. We've already talked about it.

And if they change their mind, what would you do @CarPanic? If the vaccines are offered at school and they willingly (not pressured by anyone) decide that they actually want it, how would you feel?

@ineedaholidaynow

And if they change their mind, what would you do *@CarPanic*? If the vaccines are offered at school and they willingly (not pressured by anyone) decide that they actually want it, how would you feel?

They won't. They trust and respect me. And they also agree, but that's secondary.

There may be a few teens who will offer themselves up for the vaccine against their parents wishes but they'll be a minority and definitely won't be mine.

my teen says no and I'm quite relieved to be honest as I have my concerns about them having the vaccine. Just hope they are not pressurised at school into having it as I can honestly see that being the case.They will probably be given a class talk (brain wash) all about how they should do the right thing for society and have the vaccine for their own good,obviously they will not want to put them off by telling them of possible side effects which could leave them will life long problems.And early teens are like sheep and will obviously go along with the crowd for fear of being different. They are too immature to decide for themselves in my opinion that's why it should be down to the parents to decide what's best for their child. I'd be so annoyed if my child was left with a serious heart defect or other complications from the vaccine after them being pressurised by peer pressure or school into having it. covid itself poses a very very small risk to this age group so I don't think the vaccine is necessary at all. my child has never once been offered the flu vaccine/nasal spray in their entire life and neither have I and that poses a far higher risk of death.

flu poses a far higher risk of death I should add.

Agree

Flu kills more kids each year than covid and my teens have also never been offered flu

See the campaign to scare kids into vaccine stated today - news now saying the proportion of kids infected is higher etc etc

Well of course it is because older people are vaccinated

Doesn’t mean any of them are ill

Hospital admissions data shows people are leaving hospital as quick as they arrive and ventilator use is still declining

There’s no panic most are clearly not severely ill

Half our hospitals are empty of
Covid and the other half have on average 1 covid patient

So if majority of cases are in kids - vast majority we are told on daily basis are always asymptomatic - then what’s the scare tactic for