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Are you getting your primary age child vaccinated?

168 replies

TunnelOfGoats · 21/03/2022 12:29

Just had a text from our GP asking us to book a vaccine for our DS 8yo. I've had 3 vaccines and was happy to do so, but I'm hesitating about booking one for my DS. Trying to find out other people's opinions and whether you will be getting your DC vaccinated? Thanks

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beattieedny · 22/03/2022 08:20

@PhileasPhilby

No.

I had the vaccine on the understanding it would stop transmission which it clearly doesn’t (& please don’t start the ‘we always knew that’ because 100% at the start we were told it would stop people catching it & passing it on).

I think it’s great that it seems to stop more vulnerable people becoming seriously ill. That’s amazing.

My dc -thankfully - aren’t vulnerable. They’ve had covid twice each with minimal symptoms & no long term effects. The vaccine just doesn’t seem necessary for them. If it did stop transmission so was about protecting the more vulnerable (like eg the flu spray which they have every year) I would feel completely different.

This is exactly how I feel about the vaccine.
JuneOsborne · 22/03/2022 08:45

Wondering if @MrPickles read the link they posted!

Natsku · 22/03/2022 08:49

My 11 year old has had her first vaccine, did not hesitate, as soon as they allowed vaccines for 5-11 year olds I booked her appointment. She then went and caught bloody covid a few weeks later! She was supposed to get her second jab but apparently she doesn't need a second one as she had covid (but she didn't officially have covid, only know from doing a home test so its not in her medical records, so I'll probably get her second jab done before the summer when we go on holiday in case its required for travelling and to be extra protected)

Charette · 22/03/2022 08:51

My nine year old has had his first and second doses.

HistoricMoment · 22/03/2022 08:54

No, 7 year old has had Covid twice, had a slight cold, that was all. 5 year old had Covid once, no symptoms whatsoever. I don't see the point of getting them vaccinated if it doesn't make them ill and they can still catch it, like many of the vaccinated kids I know.

Whatdidisay · 22/03/2022 08:54

No, both mine have had it twice with symptoms less than a cold! If the vaccine prevented infection or kids suffered badly with symptoms Iwould consider it but as things stand I see no point?

TheSpanishApartment · 22/03/2022 09:34

How are you all getting your children done? Do we need an invitation from GP? I've had nothing for my 7 year old (but she had covid in Jan so can't get it yet anyway). I will be getting her vaccinated. Mainly for travel purposes.

HazeyjaneIII · 22/03/2022 10:05

@Natsku

My 11 year old has had her first vaccine, did not hesitate, as soon as they allowed vaccines for 5-11 year olds I booked her appointment. She then went and caught bloody covid a few weeks later! She was supposed to get her second jab but apparently she doesn't need a second one as she had covid (but she didn't officially have covid, only know from doing a home test so its not in her medical records, so I'll probably get her second jab done before the summer when we go on holiday in case its required for travelling and to be extra protected)
Is she vulnerable? I'm not sure I understand how you were able to book her in! We were told that ds still needs his second jab in 8 weeks, despite having just had Covid.
frazzledali · 22/03/2022 11:04

fuck me I'm so tired of the whining about how it's of no benefit to healthy children. I had a healthy child, a really fit, active, healthy 11 year old. And now I don't because she's been absolutely fucked over by two bouts of Covid. She can be vaccinated now because she's vulnerable now. But still can't get it as she's not had long enough to get over Covid. And now it's going round her school again, it's going round my office like absolute wildfire, and I'm terrified she's going to get it AGAIN and be even more unwell.

But fuck it, eh, as long as you can all stick your heads in the sand and ignore it. Unbelievably stupid.

beattieedny · 22/03/2022 11:39

@frazzledali

fuck me I'm so tired of the whining about how it's of no benefit to healthy children. I had a healthy child, a really fit, active, healthy 11 year old. And now I don't because she's been absolutely fucked over by two bouts of Covid. She can be vaccinated now because she's vulnerable now. But still can't get it as she's not had long enough to get over Covid. And now it's going round her school again, it's going round my office like absolute wildfire, and I'm terrified she's going to get it AGAIN and be even more unwell.

But fuck it, eh, as long as you can all stick your heads in the sand and ignore it. Unbelievably stupid.

That's awful and a having an ill child is hard. It is an outlier, thankfully, looking at cold statistics. Covid disproportionately affects the old and the v overweight. Children are, as a whole, safe. Of course, easy to say when it's not my own, but it is the case. I had a rare side effect of the vaccine, but I still would encourage adults to get vaccinated.
PastMyBestBeforeDate · 22/03/2022 12:20

@HazeyjaneIII I think Natsku is abroad

frazzledali · 22/03/2022 12:36

@beattieedny right. Easy to dismiss my child as an outlier, is it? Thanks for your patronising input.

Motherdare · 22/03/2022 12:40

No no no, no need

DialsMavis · 22/03/2022 12:41

That is awful @frazzledali. But I see so much conflicting information regarding how much the vaccine prevents transmission. I was vaccinated to protect others as at the time I really thought it would, I am now less sure and I have also seen similar rates of covid in my vaccinated and unvaccinated friends. I do believe the way to protect children in schools is to keep up testing and ensure that parents can afford to keep their positive children at home. My employer is great and I receive full pay and test DD regularly, hence picking up 2 asymptomatic infections in her, but if I couldn't feed my kids I might not. I really hope that your DD gets better very soon.

yourestandingonmyneck · 22/03/2022 12:44

@frazzledali really hoping your little daughter gets over this soon XxX

Delatron · 22/03/2022 12:45

Yes I also got vaccinated partly to help stop the spread and protect others. Back in October with my eldest DS (13) I made the same choice for him.

Now vaccines really don’t seem to have much impact on omicron transmission I won’t be having any more or vaccinating youngest DC.
I’m grateful that they still protect against severe disease. It’s a shame they aren’t very effective for transmission.

Wishingthreestonesaway · 22/03/2022 12:57

Yes.

TrooBloo · 22/03/2022 13:03

No.

Eldest has had covid twice, mild both times. Youngest hasn’t had it.

Jabs have messed up my monthlies.

I’d rather not unless it’s for their own protection. At the moment there is no indication that they need it.

beattieedny · 22/03/2022 13:21

@frazzledali You're welcome.

riveted1 · 22/03/2022 13:35

Risks from COVID are tiny for children. Risks from vaccination are even smaller.

On a balance of risks and benefits, including how children benefit from reduced rates of infection & transmission, vaccination makes sense, which is why it is being offered.

The margin of benefit is small, hence why CW et al have stressed it is an individual decision.

riveted1 · 22/03/2022 13:38

@cantdocando

I have a question for all the ones who say my children have had COVID and I can’t wait to get them vaccinated. I am just very curious and it an answer I would like to hear to understand in why when they have had it do you want them vaccinated. does nobody believe in natural immunity no more??? Especially when say they have barely had a symptom. Nobody knows the long terms affects so for people say it safe you really are summarising that fact. As Bill Gates stated if you want to know the long term affects of a new drug you need to wait ten years🤯
does nobody believe in natural immunity no more???

No one is denying that individuals gain some immunity from infection, but it is has been demstrated repeatedly that infection + vaccination offers the best protection.

I think of it as water into a leaky bottle. You want to get the level up to the top, but the water will slowly be draining out.

Repeated exposure and infection will keep topping up the bottle, as will vaccination. You want to keep the level high in everyone's bottles and that's how we get to a population level immunity situation.

Vaccination is the safer option to top up the bottle, and adds to the level of pre-existing immunity, which is why I think it makes sense to include it, rather than relying on repeated exposure alone.

It's the same model as for 'flu, but it just isn't an issue like coronavirus because everyone has been exposed from as early when you were in utero, getting your mums antibodies and then repeated exposure once you're born. We'll get there with coronavirus, but it will take a couple more years.

Oaktree55 · 22/03/2022 14:28

Why would anyone (outside at risk groups) vaccinate a child against a virus where the vaccine is based on Wuhan 1 and we are now a significant way past that with Omicrom. Look up Original Antigenic Sin. Crazy to vax v v low risk kids with an out of date vaccine.

riveted1 · 22/03/2022 14:33

@Oaktree55

Why would anyone (outside at risk groups) vaccinate a child against a virus where the vaccine is based on Wuhan 1 and we are now a significant way past that with Omicrom. Look up Original Antigenic Sin. Crazy to vax v v low risk kids with an out of date vaccine.
What do you understand about "original antigenic sin", and why do you think it means children should not be vaccinated?

Has been explained many times over on here, but nonsense does persist.

Oaktree55 · 22/03/2022 15:06

@riveted1 read up. I’m hardly ever on here but everything I’ve said so far has been proven correct. Pointless vaccinating kids (with inherent risk all vaccines have) with an out of date vaccine.

Risk:benefit. As I outline above different if you have a child with risk factors for Covid.

Oaktree55 · 22/03/2022 15:10

PS as for “nonsense” it’s not nonsense. This site is amazing how people demand they justify their points 🤣. Everyone is entitled to post what they like, readers can then do their own follow up reading on points raised if they wish to. Many points are covered by experts on line with published credentials. Anyone who believes what anyone posts here anonymously is rather silly. Vaccinating children against Covid is a very grey area.

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