Will you encourage your DC16 to get the covid jab?

[HotAndGrumpy]

DS will be 16 soon and will have access to the vaccination.

I just do not feel as if we have enough information on this to go ahead. I am not an anti-vaxer. I have had both my jabs.

What are other peoples thoughts?

@NightmareLoon

The thing that has changed is that now they've got enough supply to do 16+.

This is wrong. It’s never been about supply.

Talk Radio I'm guessing?

Dd 17 will be having it ASAP. He goes to a special school that half the pupils have serious health conditions (he doesn't) but I would like to protect him and his school peers x

DD 17 3/4 had it yesterday. Slightly sore arm today but fine otherwise.

How do you book it, do they wait to be contacted same as we were? Does anyone know ?

@CloudPop

How do you book it, do they wait to be contacted same as we were? Does anyone know ?

I don't think anyone knows yet - the announcement yesterday was that they will,shortly be offered.

Right now, most vaccination centres refuse to do u18s (even those 16+ who qualify for one medically or household of CEV) - one of my DC was even turned away from her appointment 'yes we've had to do this to a lot of people, no we don't know why the system lets you book an inappropriate centre'

So they really do need to do some behind-the-scenes improvements of how the online system allows you to book, so that 16/17yos can only book at the centres which will definitely do that age group. Because if they dint it's going to be a giant clusterfuck

I've not got a teenage child or a nephew/niece that young. I would urge your 16/17 year olds to be vaccinated, if only to stop spread to others, a few of whom have reasons not to have been vaccinated.

If my DC were old enough, they’d be vaccinated. Hopefully there’ll be enough for 15 yo’s ASAP so my DS can have his, sadly I think it’ll be a while longer for my DD but always 🤞it’ll happen sooner.

Seeing as my 16year old daughter was researching how to get onto the the vaccination research and testing programme months ago, I don't think I'll have any say in her decision.

My 17y/o had his second jab yesterday, no encouragement or persuasion needed from me. Most of his friends are now double jabbed too.

I told my son he can make his own choice, he wants the vaccine. I’m happy with his choice, he’s just had Covid but we don’t know how long that immunity will last

No, DS is 15 but I believe his age group will be very soon. I'm 37 and haven't had the jab. I've had Covid and have a recent positive antibody test. DS has been in school since May 2020 as well as being in the same household as me so I'm certain he would have had it too. Considering that, and his age, I don't think the benefits outweigh the risks for him.

We will be encouraging our DS16, yes. He hasn't voiced any concerns about getting the vaccine, DP and me have been double 'jabbed' for a while now. We actually managed to avoid covid somehow from last March until July this year despite DP and I being in frontline high risk jobs (DP is a bus driver, for example). Then DS got a summer job kitchen portering in a cafe. Within two weeks he tested positive for covid and we all had to do our first self isolation.

Obviously he can make his own mind up but I'm hoping those 10 days at home have focused his mind .

I'm neutral on this for my 17yr old. I won't encourage or discourage.
He's prone to coughs that progress to ear infections, and probably has undiagnosed asthma. History of virus-induced wheezing -- which annoys him. He'd probably prefer to get c19 jab for himself which is fine.

DD 16 has already decided she will have to vaccine, no encouragement needed.

My nieces aged 15 and 13 had theirs in the Netherlands last month.

My 17 year old believes that the jabs should be compulsory, so doesn't really matter what I think.

(I'm double jabbed and just recovering from Covid. Still feel rough, dread to think how ill I would've been with out the jabs. I will be very relieved when my dcs have their's).

My 16 year old DD had her first dose on Sunday just gone. She has a CEV household contact so for in there a little early. She had a day and a half of feeling a little tired and achy (mostly her arm) and then was right as rain again.
I was extremely happy she chose to have the vaccine.

I'm glad teenagers will be able to make the decision to get vaccinated by themselves and won't need permission from their parents.

I’ve got a 17 yo and yes he wants the jab. He doesn’t want to have to keep isolating and missing school, the worry of getting it and passing it on to the rest of us and also he’s hopefully off to University next year and doesn’t want to get ill in halls.

• very ill in halls

My son is 17. I’m not encouraging or discouraging, just leaving it up to him. He’s old enough to decide and make the appointment if he chooses to have it.

The new chief executive of NHS England, Amanda Pritchard, warns that more than one-fifth of people admitted to hospital with Covid-19 are aged between 18 and 34, urging the young not to delay getting vaccinated

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/05/the-guardian-view-on-covid-and-the-world-some-reject-vaccines-others-are-denied-them?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Yes definitely

Yes I will encourage my 16 year old DS but it's his choice. He's sensible so I would think he will have it.

Dd3 is 14 and will be getting it ASAP as dd2 is clinically vulnerable. I also think the disruption to their education justifies it tbh.

Yes.
Though so don't need to they are keen.