UK 'past the point' where vaccinating young children will do any good

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Sharing this here (from Sky News) as I know there's been a fair few posts regarding child vaccination recently.

Will be interesting to see if other countries adopt the same stance and remove vaccine requirements from children at least.

@Remmy123

You can still pass the virus on when vaccinated so it is pointless!

You are less likely to pass the virus on so not at all pointless.

my kids need to be vaccinated to visit family in europe, otherwise Germany / Netherlands won't let my 10 year old in. I would love to be able to sign her up for vaccination asap just so we can travel again.

I don't like his message. Past the point? Everyone I know who has had their kids double vaccinated had it done ages ago, so what's his point?

Justine can shove it supporting vaccinations for kids. She certainly doesn't speak for me. All my husband's side of the family are abroad, and if my children not getting the vaccine means we can't travel, that's how it is. Their health is more important.

I would be surprised if vaccinating young kids makes much difference on a population level. They just aren't that vulnerable. Our children's hospital is seeing more kids with flu and RSV than covid at the moment.

Whilst I am extremely pro vaccine, and am triple jabbed and have double jabbed my 12 yo. I just dont feel comfortable jabbing my 2 primary age kids. Neither have had covid (nor has DH or my DD12) and if they did it would be mild. So jabbing them wouldnt be for their benefit.

Autumn-Spring 2020-21, my primary age children were only really in close contact with their own class. Some activities such as scouting weren't on. Some such as Karate/ Swimming were on with low density/ well ventilated. They were fortunate to only have one close contact isolation each.
This winter, term 2 was the heavy term for cases within the school. Activities all on as normal. Normal levels of mixing. Cases peaked before Christmas (co-incidentally when I had it, DS2 was tired, warm for a couple of hours, squinter of a line on LFT; no point in trying to get hold of a gold-dust PCR, plans all cancelled, off school for 10 more days anyway. Either came from DS1 who was his usual end of 8-week-term-knackered, or the supermarket.) Much calmer this term because most pupils and staff have now had it. Just a couple of cases in dribs and drabs.

Secondary pupils, despite bubbles still had a much higher previous exposure and will have built up better natural immunity. And yes, vaccination helps to some extent.

I've no issue with parental choice/ avaliability of vaccination, but at present, I see no medical purpose in vaccination, and I'm not rushing to put my primary age children in a political position to need vaccination (e.g. holidays. Fortunately travel to family is not currently an issue for that).

Don't want to rain on your parade Bogof, but DNiece's school had big issues with delta in autumn 2. They now have issues with omicron and an outbreak in a year group that was badly affected last term. They weren't exactly unaffected by the alpha outbreak in london schools the winter before either.

I wouldn't be counting you chickens before they've hatched and infection levels are low.

@Oblomov22

I don't like his message. Past the point? Everyone I know who has had their kids double vaccinated had it done ages ago, so what's his point?

Doesn’t he mean for 5 to 11 age group?

I believe parents should be given the option to vaccinate their primary school aged children. Maybe not send in the vaccination team to schools like with secondary but have hubs open at weekends and evenings to accommodate those that do wish to have their children vaccinated