8 year old - first covid jab - is there any point?

[Piplette]

Long story short - dd now 8 was due her first covid jab last May but as she'd just had covid literally the week before and has no underlying health conditions the advice was we had to wait 12 weeks to book in again and the booking system wasn't showing appointments that far ahead.

I then totally forgot about it until January. Had to wait ages for an appointment and we caught covid again so appointment is now booked for tomorrow but when double checking the site it said that the booster program for under 16s ends at the end of the month so she won't receive a booster.

Given the guidance that the booster was key to increasing immunity I'm wondering if there is any value in her getting one injection?

Personally I don't see the point in vaccinating healthy children. I got vaccinated because of my age

Agreed.

Never bothered with it for mine, though DH and I are vaccinated.

I wouldn’t bother is she’s had COVID twice too.

The booster programme for under 16s was only for clinically vulnerable children so unless she falls into that category she would only have ever been entitled to first two doses.

Your child your choice. My personal option is there is no was in hell I would give a healthy 8 year old a vaccine with questions over it's safety and efficacy, against a virus that posed virtually no risk to them at all.