Had a text calling 12 year old "clinically vulnerable" son for jab. Anyone else had this as brand new information to them?

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Just that really. A text saying my son is eligible as he's clinically vulnerable and to make an appointment.

My son has suspected very very mild asthma (suspected from aged 3 which is too young to officially diagnose and he's never been called back for a visit to the asthma nurse)

I'm talking mild in that he has a ventolin inhaler from years back that I used to send into school if he occasionally needed it when running around outside on a damp cold day. I'm talking,he's probably used it on average 3 times a year.

Never been on anything stronger than blue ventolin,never been hospitalised.

Anyone else had this?

No, but if we did, we won't hesitate. Other countries are already vaccinating children 12+ since months ago.

It's shouldn't be the asthma. My 12 year old has well controled asthma using qvar and salbutamol and hasn't been invited. As far as I know the jcvi are still using the cut of of a hospitalisation or 3 courses of oral steroids in 3 months for children same as adults.

I had a letter early in the pandemic telling me I was clinically vulnerable and not to leave the house. I have mild asthma and actually by then had already had Covid with hardly any symptoms.

I assume some of the practices are just using some kind of filtering system to work out who is vulnerable and it may just pick up some people it shouldn't?

@southlondener02 everyone in this house who was on the flu jab list for asthma got that letter. An inactive script for salbutamol and no inhaled steroids wouldn't put him on even the flu jab.

The asthma situation changed through the pandemic and by the time the jcvi wrote the guidelines for group 4 and group 6 you could have severe asthma and still not fall in to either of those groups. Which was the situation I was in until my gp used clinical judgment to put me in group 6.

My 15 year old has been called but her sister had a condition as a baby, we jumped at it.

It'll have been done from computer codes on his records - in the early days of vaccinating adults and telling people to shield there were loads of inaccuracies as it was done in bulk electronically.

If you want him to have the jab make the most of the opportunity.