25-29 year olds - why so keen for jabs

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I will start this by saying I’m an avid pro-vaxxer and I was ecstatic to hear that 1 million 25-29 year olds booked in for their jabs on the first day they could (more than on any other day). Today there was a huge queue for vaccinations at a pop up clinic in Sheffield - most people waiting seemed in their 20s. People were saying they were very excited and couldn’t wait for the vaccine.

But I am also very surprised they did. I was expecting healthy 25 year olds to be more relaxed about covid purely based on morbidity/hospitalisation stats - and they are presumably one of the age groups already socialising a lot. Also there’s no talk yet of vaccine passports or vaccines being needed for domestic events.

I’m mid 30s and have generally been more concerned about covid from a personal perspective than my close friends and so I was very grateful and excited for the jab - many of my friends less so as they feel it’s a duty.

Please could someone let me know why they think 25-29 year olds were so keen on being vaccinated - keener than other age groups it seems. I like to think it’s because of altruistic reasons - that would be very heartwarming

thanks

What is it that you can't understand about them wanting exactly what you...and every other age group...got? How unimaginative of you!

There's some completely bonkers posts on here this weekend...I feel like I've stepped into a parallel world, where things have gone slightly askew 🤦‍♀️

My 25 year old son is having his this week. He has had 3 different spells of self isolating as the idiots he works with thought it fine to continue working whilst having symptoms and waiting for PCR test results, which in turn closed the company down and resulted in a big outbreak of cases. Both my sons didn’t hesitate getting vaccinated as most of their friends and colleagues are already.

I also think if you would have asked them last year to have vaccine the over 30’s would not bother, but as time has gone on, they want an end to the pandemic, like we all do.

@DancingDownRain not really understanding the tone of your or some of these replies (is there really a need for “mate” in response to a genuine question on something even PHE were nervous about two months ago..

obviously am ecstatic people are getting vaccinated but was just wondering how it’s turned around so much from the government being so terrified about vaccine hesistancy in 25-29 year olds to actually that age group being even more keen than older age groups based on the numbers

pfizer helps but isn’t the only reason - was genuinely curious given PHE was worried about the opposite happening - so clearly i’m not the only one who is surprised by this....

The same reason I had my jab. I have had covid and got antibodies. I am healthy and not frightened of catching it again but I see vaccines as the only way out of this.

Because their lives are massively disrupted by COVID. This week both my young adult daughters have had plans changed by friends having to self-isolate. Youngest definitely had COVID in the autumn. This week she nearly had a week’s very well paid work cancelled as she’d come into contact at the end of May with someone who subsequently tested positive. Luckily the date of her self isolation ended in time for her to start her contract. If it hadn’t she wouldn’t have had other work to replace it, this is the story of her summer - if she tests positive or has to SI she won’t earn and won’t have money for next year (student). Other daughter would like to return to working in office, can’t if she has to SI.

To get back to normal.

I'm 30 and not remotely concerned about Covid on a personal level, never have been and never will be. I only got the jab so this whole nightmare can be over.

@DotsandCo
nothing bonkers about my question

various studies highlighting potential vaccine hesitancy in younger people - that never materialised in the end. i was simply wondering why they were wrong - great they are

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.27.20248899v1.full.pdf

lancet, phe, bmi have similar studies

really no need for rude responses to a genuine question

also in terms of my age group 35-40 unfortunately i do also know people who don’t want the jab as they think they are low risk - which i would have expected to be amplified in younger age groups - thankfully not

@Manteo

I did wonder if it was for social media reasons.

What?! I know some people (of all ages) rely on SM for their news, but this "irresistible peer pressure of social media" is the sort of thing people usually imply about teenagers FFS, not adults in their late twenties.

(I'm in my early thirties and booked the day my group were allowed, too. I'm perfectly healthy and not shielding anyone, but I've got two children in school/childcare, I'm keen to help get back to normal, and I want to help protect others including my own grandma who - whilst she has been vaccinated for a long time - I will be much more confident visiting outside now that I am, too. I imagine similar things are going on for people who are only four years younger than me!)

Maybe science education in schools was rather better for that cohort?

And that they are more community minded?

As others say, to get back to normal. I’ve got friends in their mid 30s who are single and have lost a year of dating, for many of them the pandemic could have meant they won’t get a chance to start a family because they haven’t had the chance to meet someone in time. The impact on the love lives of single people in their childbearing years is huge.

Same reason as I did (much older!) because of all the stuff about vax passport to ho abroad or go to events etc! Couldn’t give a stuff about catching what is for 99.9% of affected a mild disease.

You are really living up to your name today OP! 

What?! I know some people (of all ages) rely on SM for their news, but this "irresistible peer pressure of social media" is the sort of thing people usually imply about teenagers FFS, not adults in their late twenties.

Completely agree @NellWilsonsWhiteHair. This is like when people mockingly reference millennials like we’re all teenagers - some millennials are nearly 40 with mortgages and teenage kids!!

For me it's so I can see my grandparents and parents with as little risk as possible. I was the only family member without any jabs and with being on site at work full time I am the weak link.

I'm not bothered about travelling at the moment, just want to see friends and family.

I’m 31, so slightly older but my covid risk is tiny. I’m not remotely concerned about it or variants. The delta variant is certainly not scary to me in any way other than threatening my freedom yet again.

I’ve had my vaccine firstly, to help protect my ECV mum who is 60 & my ECV cousin who is 25, both of who have IBD & on high dose steroids. I see them every week and I feel better knowing I’m at least lowering transmission on top of them being vaccinated. The remaining reason is that I’m bloody fed up and want my life back & vaccines are the only hope of that as Boris is incompetent.

So that they don’t catch Covid.
So that they can’t pass COVID to parents or Grandparents (more likely to still have Grandparents)
So that they can go to large scale events
So that they can travel abroad.

Because they want life to go back to normal and they are being told that this is the way out.

DS(28) had Covid last year very mildly but managed to get an early Pfizer vaccine from some hospital leftovers, He didn't want to be the one left sitting at home because of vaccine passports

The idea of vaccine hesitancy in young people was always a nonsense. It was a pre-emptive attempt to blame us for things going tits up with the roadmap. Obviously it’s backfired spectacularly since they’ve gone tits up anyway and it clearly can’t be pinned on anyone except the ridiculous, inept government.

Like pp on up thread said, I think younger generation is more scientifically educated about vaccine compared to older generation, so they understand how vaccine works, and vaccine is the way out of this mess.

@DotsandCo yes as i don’t pretend to know everything - Im sorry I didn’t realise you were an epidemiologist - where did you get your degree from

You only have to check WHo, journals and articles even in the telegraph to see i’m not asking a bonkers question.... the university of oxford commissioned a study on vaccine hesistancy ffs

clearly you don’t have anything meaningful to contribute so not sure why you are continuing to respond

So we don't pass it on to people. If we are unfortunate enough to be severely affected hopefully it won't be as bad. So we can work without fear. So we can lower the risk of long covid ect the exact same reasons others get it.

I'm loving the implication from some that they are only having it for "selfish" reasons.

Like 25-29s don't have the same sense of personal and social responsibility like us oldies, eh 🙄

They want the vaccine for all the same reasons other ages groups want it. I suspect the rush to get them is in part due to them watching and waiting longer for their ‘turn’, so jumping into action as soon as they can. Timing wise the delta varient and likely pushback on the roadmap may have a lot to do with it too.

Interesting! I'm in my early 30s and booked my vaccine for the first day which was convenient for me (to fit around work, childcare etc). It was about two weeks after the first appointment available.

I have never been worried about covid from a health perspective and got the vaccine more from a social duty angle. I'd like things to go back to normal but I wouldn't be jetting off on foreign holidays this summer anyway as I have young kids. I'm not dating, don't go to clubs etc.

Maybe people in their mid-late twenties are more likely to have exciting things they're keen to get back to, and fewer commitments to work round which makes it easier to book the jab? Massive generalisation but just a possible theory!

There is also the fact that 25-29 year olds are more likely to be comfortable booking their vaccine online than older age groups, and more able/willing to travel to wherever appointments available. Hence so many booking on the first day it opened. My older family members all knew they could book online but waited for an appointment to come through from their GP for a variety of reasons.