Pfizer vaccine "safe" for children aged 5-11

[marieantoinehairnet]

I am sorry, but I want to see more than "promising results" in a trial of 2,267 participants before I'll be letting my young children have this vaccine.

Before anyone starts, I'm not anti vax, I've had the jab, but I really really feel uneasy about this move.

The JCVI said that vaccinating children between 12 & 15 had marginal health advantages.

and

"Taking a precautionary approach, this margin of benefit is considered too small to support universal COVID-19 vaccination for this age group at this time. The committee will continue to review safety data as they emerge."

marginally greater than the potential known harms.

Yes. So, whilst they deviated from Europe, America, East Asia, and the Middle East, over just how much greater the clinical benefits are, they do believe that there is a clinical benefit.

@Scrunchies,

So you do accept that vaccinating a child to protect others, and not the child itself, is sensible?

In that case, it is just a question of how safe the vaccine is, which shows the need to research it.

they do believe that there is a clinical benefit.

There definitely is, particularly for children who are vulnerable. However that benefit is too small to apply universally.

You can always just politely decline.

@ZednotZee

You can always just politely decline.

Its not as easy as that when travel and other liberties are taken away which is the road we are going down. What about if my 12 year old refuses to get vaccinated despite me wanting her to? Does that mean we can never visit my parents overseas until she is old enough to be left for a week on her own? What about school trips? Will the rest of her year get to go abroad / to the theatre / other event whist she can’t unless she has the vaccine. It becomes about coercion not free choice, for something that has almost no benefit to her.

@itsgettingwierd he has had anaphylactic reactions to a whole host of things - dairy, eggs, peas, pulses, nuts etc etc. He had to have his MMR given in hospital with a crash team in the room. It was horrific- not something I ever want to go through again.

I suspect most kids will have had COVID by the time the booster rolls around in the UK, making it largely pointless.