12-16 year olds - can they get a second jab early?

[ShortDaze]

Can a young teen get a second jab earlier than the mandated 12 weeks, if they are not vulnerable / don’t live with anyone vulnerable?

The data on Omicron and effectiveness of vaccines makes me want to get dd a second (and ideally, booster) jab as soon as possible. But I can’t find anything on gov.uk that seems up to date and definitive.

@gogohm

It's 12 weeks minimum gap due to side effects. After 12 weeks you can currently book if clinically vulnerable (child or household) others can go to walk in sites certified for under 16's but there are not many. If you aren't at 12 weeks yet you need to wait

It isn't, it's UK policy decision. Manufacturer suggests 3 week interval and that is what other countries have done.

My 14yr old child just had their second after 9 weeks so you don’t have to wait 12 weeks if high risk

Ds is at 8 weeks from 1st jab but has had no invitation for the 2nd ( is CV). I think with the booster rush now, we will be looking at the new year before he is invited. he can't go to a walk in as he needs special arrangements.

You might want to call hospital if he has his first there . We weren’t eligible through 119 but were through hospital

It was GP vaccination clinic and they had do it with him in the car as he wouldn't cope with going in. I don't want to push it at the moment because they will rushed off their feet with boosters.

@ColettesEarrings

And I suspect booking won't open to their group until at least the middle of Jan at the earliest, and for those that were done in the beginning of the schools programme that will be after 12 weeks anyway.

DS(12) had an invitation from our doctors to book and is booked in for 7th Jan. He’s not vulnerable at all.

My DC - between 12 and 15 - were called up for their second by text. When I queried it with the local surgery the receptionist said loads had been sent out in error and they would be called up at the end of January. She cancelled the appointments that I had made and said they would have been turned away at the vaccination centre anyway.