Yay teens @ vaccine centres in few weeks!

[3asAbird]

Whilst I welcome the news its far too late

This should been done over summer maybe with schools mop up sessions.
Now vaccine centres have delivered teens and boosters at the same time.

They say in area weeks no definate date.

Their promise of by half term already Broken.

So many have covid they cabt have jab within 28 days.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10099589/Ministers-plan-walk-clinics-speed-vaccine-rollout-12-15-year-olds.html

www.theguardian.com/society/2021/oct/17/concern-over-jab-delay-for-pupils-in-england-as-age-group-cases-soar?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Infections already spreading other age groups.
Once jabs takes while tale effect
Jabs don't stop transfer.
No mandate on mask wearing or extra restriction until they are done.
Parents and teachers age group steep rise

Rising hospitalisation in kids and teens.
Highest ever cases.

Also by way I assume we still giving 1 jab which they say only protect adults 30% against delta varient.

Also be after half term when kids maybe done mass gathering and activities indoors.

Told grandparents we won't be visiting as feel we putting them at risk.

I agree that this could have been started in hubs in the summer.
So many wasted opportunities.

My friend heads a children's ward for a large london hospital and there is absolutely no rise in children in with covid. Nor have there ever been many.

Also it's a shame you are not visiting grandparents, who I assume are vaccinated.

In our area, 12-15 year olds can book slots at community vaccination clinics from this week, providing the school-aged immunisation service have already done a vaccination session at their school.

Ideally 12-15 year olds would have been given the option to receive the vaccine over the summer holidays, then our schools would have had a lower prevalence of Covid in the first half of the autumn term, and then I might not have caught it at work in the third week of September, despite being fully vaccinated and wearing a mask. But we don't have a time machine, and this is better late than never.

Obviously I can't be 100% certain that I caught it at work, but:

• several of the pupils I looked after during the previous week went on to test positive.
• nobody else in my household had it or went on to get it.
• I hadn't been anywhere else but work and home during the period that Test & Trace asked about.

We've been collecting the consent forms for the vaccination session at school and plenty of 12-15 year olds are keen to have the vaccine. It's good that those who are absent on the day will be able to access it at a community clinic.

Home educated will get a chance now too.

The option for going to a vaccination clinic should have been available from the start. Why they tried to differ from a strategy that was already proven to work, just for this age group, I really can't understand.

As soon as I can book my daughter in I will do so. I've been very frustrated by the delays and the clear steep increase in cases at her school which could potentially have been lessened.

Scotland stuck with the mass vax centre model and now have 75% 16/17 yr olds jabbed and 46% of 12-15 yrs

Yes, they should have stuck with the vaccination centres, but to be fair the school vaccination model usually works very well, as well. I guess they underestimated the extra pressure this year.

@Marguerite2000

Yes, they should have stuck with the vaccination centres, but to be fair the school vaccination model usually works very well, as well. I guess they underestimated the extra pressure this year.

The school-aged immunisation programme already includes DTP, MenACWY, HPV x2. Extending the flu vaccine to all pupils up to Y11 and adding the Covid-19 vaccine for 12-15 year olds more than doubles the scale of it.

Our area are doing it during the day next week as it is half term. Except it isn’t half term for the majority of schools in our area that only have 1 week half term. Now trying to work out if my husband can take more time off work and take him out of school to take him. He should have been vaccinated at school last week but was missed.

Great news if that happens.

That is brilliant news (if it happens, don’t trust this government as far as I could throw them.)

The uptake at ds’s school was huge - just over 85%. That’s even with some year 7s not eligible, and some year 11s already being 16 and vaccinated. The vaccination team came in for one day only and couldn’t get through all the kids who needed it, and the school don’t know when they can come back.

This is really good news for all the parents & kids who want to get vaccinated asap. Also absolutely agree with you that this should have been done much sooner.

Beware, same here, we had one date, and asked parents from all the yr group to give consent if they wanted to be vaccinated. Started from lower year groups, didn't get through to my dc(yr9), and we have no date for next vaccination date yet.

Really hoping this happens. My area has really low rate now, no case at all at dc's school yet this school year, I really want my dc to be vaccinated before it start to spread here.

Pity it wasn't sorted in August.
We're delaying a trip to see family over half term so we can get extra LFT's in.

Fewer children will need it by the time it gets rolled out.

No rising hospitalisations in children/teens where I am. Case figures across all groups seem to be levelling off/falling now.

DD's school had their Covid jab slot cancelled a few weeks ago.

Meanwhile there is a stonking great mass vaccine centre a couple of miles away that is busy doing not very much.

In an ideal world it would be busy doling out booster jabs to the elderly, but the council scrapped the shuttle bus.

No rising hospitalisations in children/teens where I am.

Sadly, that’s not reflected in the rates in hospitalisation as a whole. I’ve attached a screenshot (figures from government data) showing the rise in hospitalisation in children.

Case figures across all groups seem to be levelling off/falling now.

Also incorrect. See the other screenshot, showing rising rates in all age groups.

sonorouschocolate.com/covid19/index.php?title=CasesByAge

Same data source but shows cases falling in all age groups.

This from under their graph is interesting and might explain the differences.
“The numbers in each age band are adjusted/corrected for their incompleteness, then corrected for day-of-week biases, in both cases, as far as possible, in a non-laggy way.”

I’ve attached another from ONS figure re the rises in younger age groups.

By the way, it would be really nice to have a thread without any vaccine negativity on it. This thread is useful for parents who do want their children vaccinated and where they can do that. We really don’t need yet another vaccine debate/minimising covid in children debacle.

Neither of my posts are negative. They both talk about case figures falling and hospitalisations not rising. I think both of those are pretty positive actually! :)

@bumbleymummy

Just please leave us alone?

You choose not to get vaccinated, you choose not to vaccinate your children. That's totally fine. You have your choice not to.
Tbh, cases falling or whatever really means nothing, if you are the unlucky one that caught it and had worst result.
Are you willing to take responsibility if someone listen to you and choose not to get vaccinated and had died, or had long lasting consequences? If not, just myob, as you always say. People like you are the worst. Don't know why MNHQ won't ban you, but you are the most evil kind of person, imo. Stay away of meaningful discussions.

@bumbleymummy

Fewer children will need it by the time it gets rolled out.

No rising hospitalisations in children/teens where I am. Case figures across all groups seem to be levelling off/falling now.

Aren't you in an EU country?

Do those hospital figures confirm kids are being hospitalised with covid or because of it?

As it’s estimated 1 in 20 kids have covid

So many kids being admitted may now have covid but that’s very different to being hospitalised for covid

I do not believe that many are hospitalised for covid alone

The news of better access to vaccines is fantastic. The demand has been such that there are a lot of frustrated parents now who will be glad to hear this. If you'd rather not vaccinate, the situation hasn't changed for you and you are still free not to, so there is every reason to be pleased all round.

I do think however that anyone who has done absolutely anything whatsoever to hinder the rollout of the vaccine to those parents who want it for their children need to take a good look at their motivation in the light of the overwhelming prevailing mood of the country.