Covid: Children 'well protected by Pfizer vaccine'
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Initial results from trials in 12- to 15-year-olds in the US will be handed to regulators.
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They’re well protected from Covid full stop ??
They're well protected by their natural immunity too. Stop trying to force medication on people, especially kids. Line in the sand.
But Big Pharma has to get its pound of flesh out of the pandemic.
Especially at >GBP25 per shot.
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Especially at >GBP25 per shot.
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As long as parents can refuse then this is good news so that vulnerable children can be vaccinated to protect them without having to try to get herd immunity in children as we do with childhood vaccines.
HMG were so keen to roll out the vaccines because they saw it as their get out of jail card.
All the (as yet mainly unseen) horrors of LD justified by a simple jab in the arm... we've saved you!
Fair enough
But asking parents to have their(almost zero risk) children vaxed, with what, even with the best will in the world, is a vaccine as novel as the virus it's designed to fight, must be immoral.
All the (as yet mainly unseen) horrors of LD justified by a simple jab in the arm... we've saved you!
Fair enough
But asking parents to have their(almost zero risk) children vaxed, with what, even with the best will in the world, is a vaccine as novel as the virus it's designed to fight, must be immoral.
Get them jabbed by the start of the autumn term so we can have a good end to the year too!!
why?
Why would you need to vaccinate children against an illness that doesn't affect them . More money for big pharma anyone ? Jabbed every year for the rest of their life ! stop this nonsense NOW !!
Vaccines without a lifting of restrictions is simply lining the pockets of the drug companies.
We need to be accelerating the lifting of restrictions - not this tip toeing about
We need to be accelerating the lifting of restrictions - not this tip toeing about
They could still get it
If your child was undergoing treatment for leukaemia for example - and nearly 2000 kids in the UK get cancer every year - a vaccine option to prevent COVID will probably be quite useful. So such a study is likely to be helpful, for people in the medical field and parents of affected children. Obviously for people with no medical knowledge, just an excuse to rant about things I guess.
It's nothing like that at all. $2 to $5 is more like it worldwide.
AZ/Oxford are doing it at cost
We all know people couldn’t care less about teachers, as long as the schools are open
From whom would you take the vaccine to vaccinate them?
I wonder where all this negative press for the AZ vaccine keeps coming from, interestingly Pfizer tried to buy AZ.
Why would we even consider this.
Since when have we vaccinated people that are at virtually no risk themselves from anything.
Seems to me having gone down the mad route of quarantining the healthy, over a disease with over a 99% survival rate, we're now up for any kind of insanity.
Since when have we vaccinated people that are at virtually no risk themselves from anything.
Seems to me having gone down the mad route of quarantining the healthy, over a disease with over a 99% survival rate, we're now up for any kind of insanity.
Looks like German industry. Never mind, sales of their unreliable polluting cars are falling rapidly in the UK!
This stat from UK vaccination on blood clot events
"Up to February 28, there were 38 reports from about 11.5million doses of Pfizer’s vaccine – compared to 30 from 9.7million AstraZeneca doses"
I simply do not understand the reactionary hokeykokey approach from Europe that is rippling around the world. Vaccines save lives - the needs of the many outweigh the interests of big pharma
"Up to February 28, there were 38 reports from about 11.5million doses of Pfizer’s vaccine – compared to 30 from 9.7million AstraZeneca doses"
I simply do not understand the reactionary hokeykokey approach from Europe that is rippling around the world. Vaccines save lives - the needs of the many outweigh the interests of big pharma
We have to admit AZ made some communication gaffes around the announcement of results (picked up by regulators). But there has also been some scapegoating by politicians. At the end of the day the science on an association with blot clots is inconclusive (possibly a statistical anomaly?) - we have to remember that Covid itself is proven to cause blood clots - so relative risks favour the vaccine.
US; Canada; South Africa; Norway....lots of countries around the world have doubts about A-Z vaccine, though I would take it if offered. However, let other nations decide their own public health policies, and just concentrate on what our own Government is doing to protect us...that's the important thing! If other nations don't use A-Z, it just means there's more to go round for those that do.
Well it is because a lot of people have died and had serious life changing side effects, so why would that not be negative? And one never knows who will react or not - Russian Roulette?
Yes I wonder can Pfizer see profits going out the window hence lets to rubbish AZ even though it was developed by one if not the best vaccine labs in the world.
Big pharma lobbying at the EU...didnt work as France shuts up shop. Ha bloody ha.
Pfizer are not offering a vaccine - they are offering experimental gene therapy or to quote leaked e-mails.......... a new operating system
The Pfizer propaganda consortium headed by Merkel and Macron certainly doing their job well.
I guess we should rejoin the EU then - makes too much sense not to.
Rejoin referendum 2022 anyone?
Rejoin referendum 2022 anyone?
What's not important
126,000 deaths
Fraud of £30Bn on track and trace
Complete and utter failure by our government
What is important
Getting one over the EU
Big flags
Boris going to the pub weeeeey what a LAD
126,000 deaths
Fraud of £30Bn on track and trace
Complete and utter failure by our government
What is important
Getting one over the EU
Big flags
Boris going to the pub weeeeey what a LAD
The best bit is that macaroon and meghan merkel want to buy the sputnik vaccine, which was most likely developed from data stolen from AZ hacks.
I don't think you realise that Pfizer is an American pharma company!
Pfizer is not a vaccine - it is experimental gene therapy (or a new operating system to quote Pfizer leaked e-mails )
What we need to understand next is what is a normal case rate for Covid compared to say 'flu? It's clearly not going to be zero, but if we get rid of the hospitalisations, how many cases are really normal? How many actual cases of flu are there each year?
Twenty thousand deaths from flu in a normal year, more in some, and society has accepted this.
Stands to reason that society will accept it for COVID too. Sure there may be a selfish and vocal minority who call for more restrictions when deaths start creeping up but most people just want to get busy living.
Stands to reason that society will accept it for COVID too. Sure there may be a selfish and vocal minority who call for more restrictions when deaths start creeping up but most people just want to get busy living.
it has a greater base R rating
I think the kids own immune system has proved more than capable of keeping them "well protected" to so far.....
Do their own immune systems prevent them from spreading the virus to older members of their families?
What about kids with bad immune system?
What about kids that you don’t know have a bad immune system?
Quite a gamble, so maybe jab all the kids just to be on the safe side.
What about kids that you don’t know have a bad immune system?
Quite a gamble, so maybe jab all the kids just to be on the safe side.
snotty noses apparently
no room for anymore
no room for anymore
There are many children like my 6yrs old daughter who has been shielding nearly a whole year, they need vaccine. I can't wait for it, the sooner the better.
Not so much their immune systems - but their body's own resistance to endothelial damage to their vascular system. They're just able to "wait to out" for longer than adults whose vascular systems have more wear and tear.
http://www.en.usz.ch/media/press-releases/pages/covid-19-endotheliitis.aspx
http://www.en.usz.ch/media/press-releases/pages/covid-19-endotheliitis.aspx
People are forgetting virus mutations ie South African variant where if a young person gets it and is a carrier and passes it on to older family members who have been vaccinated but the vaccine has a reduced effect then that person could end up in ICU
I’m as pro vaccine as anyone and I’ll be taking it when offered but I really don’t like the pressure that’s being applied to get people who don’t really need it to take it. We don’t need domestic vaccine passports and we certainly don’t need kids vaccinated.
We’re lucky to have very low levels of vaccine hesitancy/antivaxx sentiment in the UK. Why are we trying to solve problems that don’t exist?
We’re lucky to have very low levels of vaccine hesitancy/antivaxx sentiment in the UK. Why are we trying to solve problems that don’t exist?
Well said. Plenty of evidence to suggest that we will reach vaccination levels through voluntary means. Vaccine passports -- I would bet -- would just make those reluctant more reluctant, while also locking them out of society. There are plenty of other ethical concerns, but it's worrying.
If it helps the children stop catching it, they then can't pass it on to granny
I agree. The idea of vaccine passports is alarming to many, including people like me who are more than happy to take the vaccine when I get the chance. I'm concerned that it is just feeding into the sense of mistrust among a small but not insignificant number of people. Instead of encouraging vaccine take-up it may actually entrench anti-vax sentiment as further evidence of government shenanigans.
Need to srive down number of infected to minimise the opportunity for the virus to mutate.
Vaccinated kids means less covid about to
A) pass on to people who can’t have the vaccine for allergy reasons
B) pass on to the 10% (approx) of people that the vaccine isn’t effective for
C)Mutate
A) pass on to people who can’t have the vaccine for allergy reasons
B) pass on to the 10% (approx) of people that the vaccine isn’t effective for
C)Mutate
Getting people to take the jab is the only way that we will get back to normal.
As a scientist and a parent of a child who developed a chronic fatigue aged16, I think we should offer the vaccine to young people including children. I am not saying we bully anyone into this but vaccinating more of our population will protect those for whom vaccination is not an option. More importantly it will protect children from long Covid - like CFS, recovery may take 2-3 years - if at all
im fully vaccinated for my work, but until robust peer review safety data is published im not touching a covid jab, if i still had kids they wouldnt be anywhere near it.
Its intersting to note germany has again restricted the use of the AZ vaccine and the bbc has now removed the story.
Its intersting to note germany has again restricted the use of the AZ vaccine and the bbc has now removed the story.
There are people who are imno compromised who can’t take it though. It offers protection to the vulnerable and idiots as teenagers can spread it.
How can you claim to be as 'pro vaccine AS ANYONE' and then go on to say you don't like 'the pressure' to encourage people to get vaccinated, and you object to vaccinated kids and vaccine passports! Surely that's not the most 'pro vaccine' stance to take!
The risk of Covid mutations is in itself reason enough to do everything possible to maximise vaccine uptake.
The risk of Covid mutations is in itself reason enough to do everything possible to maximise vaccine uptake.
That's all pretty short-sighted. IF we reach the stage that only children are not vaccinated and we are all carriers then the virus may well mutate to target the kids. We do the research NOW in case these problems arise. It will be too late to do it then if this happens. The need to take vaccines may change, better to have that option.
Agree, we really need to educate on all prevention measures such as mask wearing and ventilation.
So many people on trains with thier 'chin protectors' doing nothing, whilst train staff say nothing.
So many people on trains with thier 'chin protectors' doing nothing, whilst train staff say nothing.
Contrary to popular belief a small minority of highly clinically vulnerable children do need to be vaccinated.
Why do we not need kids vaccinated? I teach 10 year olds and 3 in my class had it over the Christmas holidays.
There’s a lot of anti vaccine lobbyists out there that are influencing the vulnerable and are now targeting the young - trying to scare children to talk their parents out of it? To me that’s one of the reasons for low take up in some ethnic groups?
WE won't get domestic vaccine passports but what other countries decide they need for incomers (& what UK require) is another matter.
Nor will we be vaccinating children unless it is shown to be necessary - as it is with the MMR vaccine.
Nor will we be vaccinating children unless it is shown to be necessary - as it is with the MMR vaccine.
Before today I was very pro-Covid vaccination.
I met a friend who told me about her father dying after being vaccinated. I recognise that this could be sheer coincidence but the problem is that nearly six weeks on no one from MRHA has investigated the cause of death or really acknowledged it.
The problem this presents is that given we’re using a black triangles vaccine the MRHA should be...
I met a friend who told me about her father dying after being vaccinated. I recognise that this could be sheer coincidence but the problem is that nearly six weeks on no one from MRHA has investigated the cause of death or really acknowledged it.
The problem this presents is that given we’re using a black triangles vaccine the MRHA should be...
A very sensible comment at last on the BBC. Some people can die or get auto-immune conditions or severe allergy from peanuts or gluten, some don't. If the vaccine makers can come under scrutiny, there should not be concerns. However, they don't come under scrutiny and they have legal protection against prosecution. Car manufacturers trying experimental cars, are not protected. Wonder why?
Bollocks. My kids need healthy parents and grandparents, and long-term covid damage is a big tail risk. The vaccines are safe. They’ll all be getting them.
Alas I’m afraid you are wrong. While the death rates for Covid are almost exclusively for the over 50s, the people struggling with Long Covid are much often younger. Furthermore, it is the young who get many forms of Leukaemia (especially school age) and the first presentation for loss of that immunity could be a Covid fatality.
The morbidity and mortality from Covid in under 50s is still huge.
The morbidity and mortality from Covid in under 50s is still huge.
To get ahead of the game this time.
Kids catch Covid just like adults, very rarely get seriously ill but they can transmit it to others. So kids do need to be vaccinated. Also, according to a charity helping children who have long Covid, one in ten who contract Covid then develop long Covid. Still think kids don't need to be vaccinated?
Why don't we need children vaccinated? I'd be interested in your medical opinion
Best comment in a long time, completely with you.
Kids might not need vaccinating with the current variants in circulation, but if a new mutation appears which does make kids sick, it would be helpful to have the vaccine already approved, so an updated version could be rolled out without delay.
While the numbers are very low some children die from Covid, and some suffer long Covid. So if it is safe why not vaccinate. The issue is proving it is safe enough that the benefits outweigh the risks. And that means a far larger trial because even rare detrimental effects from vaccination could shift the balance against vaccination. Problem then is children volunteering when they are children.
Another good piece of news, were on our way out of this torture. This is significant as the teenyboppers are guilty of spreading the virus. Not all of them of course but by being able to extinguish the spread among groups case numbers can stay low.
Not true by a long shot! Follow the science, schools are open and rates of infection, hospitalization and deaths are all going down significantly. The kids don't need the vaccine
Torture only brought on by the Governments reponse!
I’m as pro vaccine as anyone and I’ll be taking it when offered but I really don’t like the pressure that’s being applied to get people who don’t really need it to take it. We don’t need domestic vaccine passports and we certainly don’t need kids vaccinated.
We’re lucky to have very low levels of vaccine hesitancy/antivaxx sentiment in the UK. Why are we trying to solve problems that don’t exist?
We’re lucky to have very low levels of vaccine hesitancy/antivaxx sentiment in the UK. Why are we trying to solve problems that don’t exist?
Covid on the whole is a mild illness in children...why do they need to be vaccinated?
So that schools can open safely
Yes I know it’s low chance of getting and even less dying but they could still get it
Its not about children. Its about spreading. Schools, like churches pubs, workplaces and other large scale indoor environments remain superspreader conduits into whole families. There's no chance of getting down to v low levels and mutations without vaccinating attendees of all.
Because if it’s stopping kids getting it entirely (which seems to be the case) -then they’re not carriers.
To protect others!! jeez
On majority kids don't need one, there is still a significant number of children with underlying health problems who need protection.
Because nearly all uk adults are paranoid
Vaccinating kids is ridiculous. Bit why stop there, let’s vaccinate unborns in the womb! Just so the bedwetters feel ‘safe’ ??
Measles, mumps and rubella are usually fairly mild in children too, but devastating as adults. That's why children will be vaccinated. As we see how bad this really is it'll either be added to childhood vacinnations, given like flu jabs to the vulnerable or stopped as it becomes part of the cold pantheon.
Oh, and because the folk on social media are thick and won't send their children to school because they're scared of Covid.
There is mounting evidence of children having long term issues from Covid plus kids are best looked after by healthy parents and teachers.
Get them jabbed by the start of the autumn term so we can have a good end to the year too!!
Spoke to two people today in the vulnerable group (over 70’s) who both stated that their second doses had been put back at least 2 weeks due to lack of vaccines supply.
Has the Astra Zeneca vaccine been tested for efficacy at 14/15 weeks?
Not good if lockdown is ending before many of the vulnerable have received a second dose.
Has the Astra Zeneca vaccine been tested for efficacy at 14/15 weeks?
Not good if lockdown is ending before many of the vulnerable have received a second dose.
So we should have lockdown until there is no risk to anyone of dying from COVID? Presumably then we should all have liberties taken away to reduce the risk of diabetes and heart attack. No soft-drinks and chocolate for anyone until there is no risk of diabetes! Nobody's safe until we're all safe!
One dose prevents severe disease and blocking up the NHS.
Since when did you move the goal posts and who gave you the right to put people under house arrest because “someone might get a cough”.
Since when did you move the goal posts and who gave you the right to put people under house arrest because “someone might get a cough”.
Firstly I don’t believe you as there are still a large amount of vaccinations per day and the second doses are a long way ahead of the first dose total 12 weeks ago.
Secondly, we don’t need to give all the vulnerable groups a second dose before easing lockdown, the first dose makes by far the biggest difference to protection, the second is mainly a booster which only increases protection slightly
Secondly, we don’t need to give all the vulnerable groups a second dose before easing lockdown, the first dose makes by far the biggest difference to protection, the second is mainly a booster which only increases protection slightly
Of course they are, they don't need the vaccine
I’m as pro vaccine as anyone and I’ll be taking it when offered but I really don’t like the pressure that’s being applied to get people who don’t really need it to take it. We don’t need domestic vaccine passports and we certainly don’t need kids vaccinated.
We’re lucky to have very low levels of vaccine hesitancy/antivaxx sentiment in the UK. Why are we trying to solve problems that don’t exist?
We’re lucky to have very low levels of vaccine hesitancy/antivaxx sentiment in the UK. Why are we trying to solve problems that don’t exist?
I think the kids own immune system has proved more than capable of keeping them "well protected" to so far.....
The vulnerable are vaccinated. Nigh on 100% successful at preventing severe disease.
Remember authoritarian thugs stole our freedoms to “save the NHS”. Not to prevent cases.
I don’t care how many have Covid versus how many have the common cold. It’s the numbers clogging up ICU that I care about.
Remember authoritarian thugs stole our freedoms to “save the NHS”. Not to prevent cases.
I don’t care how many have Covid versus how many have the common cold. It’s the numbers clogging up ICU that I care about.
No, and neither will the vaccine.
But the older have had their jabs, so why fear children not vaccinated? Or you're salesman for Pfizer? You people lost your mind and if vaccines are magic solution then why scientists and government want whole Europe and rest of the world to get vaccinated before we go back to normality? Seems to me they've invested in pharmaceutical shares and want everyone to get the jab!
In a number of instances yes, because they are largely asymptomatic or have very mild symptoms so less likely to pass it on. Not so true in older children though where this might be of benefit.
The ones that should be vaccinated?
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Both comments are wrong.
Children's immune systems aren't that well developed, but neither are their respiratory systems.
They don't tend to get infected with Covid as they're not able to inhale enough virus to overload their immune system, thus can't she'd virus to infect others.
Children's immune systems aren't that well developed, but neither are their respiratory systems.
They don't tend to get infected with Covid as they're not able to inhale enough virus to overload their immune system, thus can't she'd virus to infect others.
Also do their own immune systems prevent mutations that are resistant to the vaccine?
children are also well protected from covid via their own immune systems. The vaccine to a child serves no purpose other than to make big pharma billions. if you're a parent with young kids, do not let big pharma or government cronies inject the covid vaccine into your kids, their immune system will do the job.
You must have a sad life to be so mistrustful and suspicious.
Couldn't agree more.
But Big Pharma has to get its pound of flesh out of the pandemic.
Especially at >GBP25 per shot.
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Especially at >GBP25 per shot.
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This is about the Pfizer vaccine, not AZ and they are charging more than £25 per shot. It is only AZ who are providing vaccines at cost.
Not for the Pfizer vaccine which this study was for.
RTA
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They’re well protected from Covid full stop ??
Although children still get infected they show little to no symptoms. BUT , recent studies are showing even although this is the case they are fully capable of spreading the virus including to the vulnerable. It also give the virus a platform to mutate with possibly more dangerous mutations.
The dislikes on this topic are extremely suspicious to say the least. I know of nobody personally with whom vaccinating kids against covid sits well morally or ethically.
I agree with your sentiment but the death toll in road traffic collisions in the UK is approximately 2000 per year so Covid is killing a fair few more than RTCs.
Fair balance: Covid 150k in a pandemic year, cancer + dementia + circulatory disease 500k _every_ year
Fair balance: Covid 150k in a pandemic year, cancer + dementia + circulatory disease 500k _every_ year
What we need to understand next is what is a normal case rate for Covid compared to say 'flu? It's clearly not going to be zero, but if we get rid of the hospitalisations, how many cases are really normal? How many actual cases of flu are there each year?
Twenty thousand deaths from flu in a normal year, more in some, and society has accepted this.
Stands to reason that society will accept it for COVID too. Sure there may be a selfish and vocal minority who call for more restrictions when deaths start creeping up but most people just want to get busy living.
Stands to reason that society will accept it for COVID too. Sure there may be a selfish and vocal minority who call for more restrictions when deaths start creeping up but most people just want to get busy living.
Absolutely. But in this age of pandering to the minority I really do fear that we've started down a slippery slope where the removal of rights isn't seen as a shocking act of violation.
Interesting that anti-Vaxxers claim 20k die "from Flu" in a normal year, but that those reported by HMG died "with Covid, not from Covid"
You need to make up your minds guys
You need to make up your minds guys
We do not accept flu deaths which is why there is so much work on flu vaccinations each year.
Moron Tory BOT. Bet he gets a hissy fit and this post is taken down within 5 mins. Bloody thin skinned Tory scum. Can dish it out but can't take it.
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But Big Pharma has to get its pound of flesh out of the pandemic.
Especially at >GBP25 per shot.
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Especially at >GBP25 per shot.
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Covid on the whole is a mild illness in children...why do they need to be vaccinated?
They are open and they are safe. Next question?
How will they open safely? The vaccine doesn't stop you getting the virus, it simply prevents you from getting ill. You can still transmit it.
But it doesn’t stop transmition to others. Also, if the vulnerable have been vaccinated, they should be safe anyway. This would have been the opportunity for natural immunity to build in the younger age group without the need for vaccines
The schools are open safely. Been open 3.5 weeks and infections have dropped 25% since then.
Why are the staff not vaccinated?
Spoke to two people today in the vulnerable group (over 70’s) who both stated that their second doses had been put back at least 2 weeks due to lack of vaccines supply.
Has the Astra Zeneca vaccine been tested for efficacy at 14/15 weeks?
Not good if lockdown is ending before many of the vulnerable have received a second dose.
Has the Astra Zeneca vaccine been tested for efficacy at 14/15 weeks?
Not good if lockdown is ending before many of the vulnerable have received a second dose.
children are also well protected from covid via their own immune systems. The vaccine to a child serves no purpose other than to make big pharma billions. if you're a parent with young kids, do not let big pharma or government cronies inject the covid vaccine into your kids, their immune system will do the job.
The Pfizer war on AstraZeneca continues!
To promote a vaccine that is unnecessary for the healthy population ie. nearly everyone.
Gathering data is not a war .
So that schools can open safely
What a sorry state of affairs, pharma companies wasting years of scientific experience and knowledge in doing these tests when they could have just come to the combined wisdom of the Have Your Say crowd who of course know far better!
Of course, a public concerned over their safety and of their children are to be discarded. We should listen to multi-billion dollar companies who are guided by profits.
the same pharma companies that over the years have had to pay out billions , let strust everything they say as gospel shall we
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_pharmaceutical_settlements
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_pharmaceutical_settlements
You must have a sad life to be so mistrustful and suspicious.
Covid on the whole is a mild illness in children...why do they need to be vaccinated?
Wow, so vaccine protects children for most of their life does it? I don't remember reading about this. Please do publish the data to support this important research
@"Because they won't always be children...?"
If they catch covid as children, then that's likely to build up their immunity naturally ready for adulthood
Some scientists think that if the common cold had appeared out of nowhere right now, we'd have the same problems with that.
The reason colds aren't serious is because we build up broad immunity from regular infection when younger
If they catch covid as children, then that's likely to build up their immunity naturally ready for adulthood
Some scientists think that if the common cold had appeared out of nowhere right now, we'd have the same problems with that.
The reason colds aren't serious is because we build up broad immunity from regular infection when younger
Covid on the whole is a mild illness in children...why do they need to be vaccinated?
It might be a good idea to differentiate between pre pubescent children and post pubescent adolescents in any reporting not just for covid. Headline using the word "children" is misleading when the body copy correctly states "adolescents".
Good luck with that !!!
What on earth for? It took long enough to get out of it! Why are you talking about? What a peculiar comment, unless you are being ironic
Only a fool would join the EU now, after them completely and falsely claiming our vaccine was a problem, stopping exports etc and basically destroying any credibility they had left ! The EU is finished now, there will be a massive exodus of investment after this.
Rejoin the Eu that corrupt bunch who only want U.K. money you must be joking.
Well said. Plenty of evidence to suggest that we will reach vaccination levels through voluntary means. Vaccine passports -- I would bet -- would just make those reluctant more reluctant, while also locking them out of society. There are plenty of other ethical concerns, but it's worrying.
children are also well protected from covid via their own immune systems. The vaccine to a child serves no purpose other than to make big pharma billions. if you're a parent with young kids, do not let big pharma or government cronies inject the covid vaccine into your kids, their immune system will do the job.
I note Pfizer feels 2260 subjects are sufficient for safety data, yet the number in the AZ trial in the US being greater wasn't sufficient.
yes...a very tiny trial submitted to US regulators. Children have so infinitesimally small chance of serious covid-19 that they are usually more likely to develop serious conditions with than from covid-19 with exceptions. More important to vaccinate higher risk children, assess chance of vaccines reducing infectivity in children and modelling of feasibility when adult herd immunity reached
Quite happy to take the vaccine myself, but it wont be going anywhere near my kids.
Spoke to two people today in the vulnerable group (over 70’s) who both stated that their second doses had been put back at least 2 weeks due to lack of vaccines supply.
Has the Astra Zeneca vaccine been tested for efficacy at 14/15 weeks?
Not good if lockdown is ending before many of the vulnerable have received a second dose.
Has the Astra Zeneca vaccine been tested for efficacy at 14/15 weeks?
Not good if lockdown is ending before many of the vulnerable have received a second dose.
I think once all adults have been offed they should offer it to kids because I know there is 99% survival rate but they could still get it or even die
There’s 100% chance we will all die of something. The trouble with this entire cockup is that it is the first time people became aware of their own mortality. Now they falsely believe if we stamp out covid they’ll love forever. Well you won’t. Get over it.
the same pharma companies that over the years have had to pay out billions , let strust everything they say as gospel shall we
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_pharmaceutical_settlements
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_pharmaceutical_settlements
Madness
Covid on the whole is a mild illness in children...why do they need to be vaccinated?
That’s just made up rot! There is no solid reliable unbiased valid evidence to suggest that at all.
Ha, and so the selfishness of the lockdown brigade is laid bare.
You would enforce a vaccination on children for almost entirely the benefit of older people?
The benefit to the children themseles is negligible.
Since when did our own youth become cattle required for innoculation? Your hipocrisy stinks.
You would enforce a vaccination on children for almost entirely the benefit of older people?
The benefit to the children themseles is negligible.
Since when did our own youth become cattle required for innoculation? Your hipocrisy stinks.
Children don't spread it!
Numbers in schools reflect spread from adults, not the other way round!
I'd sell my soul to get to the pub but I do not want to live in a world where schools are closed but pubs are open, even if they're being run by militant lefties who have created the Batley Grammar school fiasco!
Numbers in schools reflect spread from adults, not the other way round!
I'd sell my soul to get to the pub but I do not want to live in a world where schools are closed but pubs are open, even if they're being run by militant lefties who have created the Batley Grammar school fiasco!
I guess we should rejoin the EU then - makes too much sense not to.
Rejoin referendum 2022 anyone?
Rejoin referendum 2022 anyone?
Spoke to two people today in the vulnerable group (over 70’s) who both stated that their second doses had been put back at least 2 weeks due to lack of vaccines supply.
Has the Astra Zeneca vaccine been tested for efficacy at 14/15 weeks?
Not good if lockdown is ending before many of the vulnerable have received a second dose.
Has the Astra Zeneca vaccine been tested for efficacy at 14/15 weeks?
Not good if lockdown is ending before many of the vulnerable have received a second dose.
Here we go. So begins the unnecessary vaccination of our young. They are the least at risk, therefore they don't need this.
Much as I loathe conspiracy theories, but Germany and France keep coming up as the protagonists when talking about AZ. Is it jealousy or profit behind it all?
I understand that the UK supplies are going down a bumpy road at the moment, so why sacrifice the vulnerable by giving their much needed vaccines to children, who are the largest source of infection, but the least likely group to suffer?
I understand that the UK supplies are going down a bumpy road at the moment, so why sacrifice the vulnerable by giving their much needed vaccines to children, who are the largest source of infection, but the least likely group to suffer?
Did you ever wonder why the UK government has decided to not give AZ to under 50s and instead switch them to Moderna?
Nope, not a chance........
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Harrow in Middlesex
Harrow in Middlesex
Get them jabbed by the start of the autumn term so we can have a good end to the year too!!
Hey BBC, what happened to that story you ran about Covid wards full of kids?
Is that why we need vaccines for kids? Please do tell us what the outcome of that highly ethical piece of reporting was?
Still waiting to see the photos of these wards.
Is that why we need vaccines for kids? Please do tell us what the outcome of that highly ethical piece of reporting was?
Still waiting to see the photos of these wards.
spot on. even having the jab does not guarantee you will not catch covid or be able to pass it on. It means the chances are you will not be hospitalised or die from it. So where are all these very ill children?
Turns out that the Paediatric Registrar covering those wards the weekend they announced it, said it was scaremongering nonsense. The Matron who claimed it came back and said, it was not 'her' wards, but what she had 'heard about other paediatric departments'
Read this and understand..... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55518248
A FOI request shut that story down.. and there werent wards full of children.
I think you may have just made that up. Come on, let's have a link to that particular BBC story. Can't find it - perhaps because it never existed.
So the fact that the vaccine is being tested to see if it is safe for kids is not an indication that it will be rolled out for kids. But kids too can suffer awful health issues that make them more susceptible so it's got to be a positive to know that they too can get protection that make make a difference to their lives.
Give me your address and I’ll post you pics of my friends 5 yr old in hospital
As far as I was aware the vaccines point was not to stop transmission but rather it was to stop serious illness and death. And as there's still uncertainty over whether it even stops transmission in older recipients what is the actual reason it would be given to children? Because as it stands it surely couldn't be to stop serious illness and death in this age range.
Good, now vaccinate all the kids too! The way out of this nightmare is that everyone gets vaccinated and we all have annual boosters for variants. At the same time we need to vaccinate the WORLD!
Not everyone will need a booster. Otherwise we will be vaccinating forever.
No its not! Young health people do not need it. Protect the older and vulnerable and the problem is solved without sticking unnecessary chemicals in your arm.
I’m as pro vaccine as anyone and I’ll be taking it when offered but I really don’t like the pressure that’s being applied to get people who don’t really need it to take it. We don’t need domestic vaccine passports and we certainly don’t need kids vaccinated.
We’re lucky to have very low levels of vaccine hesitancy/antivaxx sentiment in the UK. Why are we trying to solve problems that don’t exist?
We’re lucky to have very low levels of vaccine hesitancy/antivaxx sentiment in the UK. Why are we trying to solve problems that don’t exist?
It doesn’t matter if they pass it on to granny as she’s vaccinated.
I’m as pro vaccine as anyone and I’ll be taking it when offered but I really don’t like the pressure that’s being applied to get people who don’t really need it to take it. We don’t need domestic vaccine passports and we certainly don’t need kids vaccinated.
We’re lucky to have very low levels of vaccine hesitancy/antivaxx sentiment in the UK. Why are we trying to solve problems that don’t exist?
We’re lucky to have very low levels of vaccine hesitancy/antivaxx sentiment in the UK. Why are we trying to solve problems that don’t exist?
I agree. The idea of vaccine passports is alarming to many, including people like me who are more than happy to take the vaccine when I get the chance. I'm concerned that it is just feeding into the sense of mistrust among a small but not insignificant number of people. Instead of encouraging vaccine take-up it may actually entrench anti-vax sentiment as further evidence of government shenanigans.
A vaccine passport to enable travel to and from abroad seems entirely sensible, at least initially as it will get the industry back on track for everyone sooner. Don't support it domestically. I support vaccinating children if proven safe as we do for measles etc. seems silly not to.
The scientific literature shows that kids aren't the main drivers of the spread. The ECDC summarise it here "Younger children appear to be less susceptible to infection, and when infected, less often lead to onward transmission than older children and adults." https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/children-and-school-settings-covid-19-transmission
What’s wrong with their immune systems? I thought levels of covid illness in the young were statistically nonexistent.
We need to vaccinate 80% (at a minimum) of the population in order to achieve herd immunity.
We're not vaccinating kids to stop them from dying. We're vaccinating them to achieve herd immunity. Thus protecting the older people (some of whom can't/won't take the vaccine).
This protects our hospitals and allows us to get our lives back to normal.
Not that hard to understand.......
We're not vaccinating kids to stop them from dying. We're vaccinating them to achieve herd immunity. Thus protecting the older people (some of whom can't/won't take the vaccine).
This protects our hospitals and allows us to get our lives back to normal.
Not that hard to understand.......
There have even been babies dying from Covid and we still are not sure of the long term harm that Covid may cause to people that show no initial symptoms.
Then there is the very real risk of mutations and the only way to minimise that risk without locking down for ever is through mass vaccination.
Then there is the very real risk of mutations and the only way to minimise that risk without locking down for ever is through mass vaccination.
There is only very small probability children would develop any more serious form of Covid 19, therefore there's no need to vaccinate them. Argument that they can infect others doesn't stand if the more vulnerable have been immunised.
The Vaccine does not stop you getting the virus 100% and it is not 100% effective in preventing serious illness so your argument does not stack up.
"There is only very small probability children would develop any more serious form of Covid 19, therefore there's no need to vaccinate them" Completely wrong, if you give the virus a breeding platform (children) it is going to mutate freely and possibly to a current variant immune to the vaccine.
"Argument that they can infect others doesn't stand if the more vulnerable have been immunised."
And what about all the old people who can't take the vaccine for medical reasons, what about all the pregnant women who can't take the vaccine, what about the anti-vaxxers who won't take the vaccine?
There are plenty of vulnerable people who are not immunised. Hence we need to keep vaccinating.
And what about all the old people who can't take the vaccine for medical reasons, what about all the pregnant women who can't take the vaccine, what about the anti-vaxxers who won't take the vaccine?
There are plenty of vulnerable people who are not immunised. Hence we need to keep vaccinating.
Quite happy to take the vaccine myself, but it wont be going anywhere near my kids.
Because the vaccines are still at an early stage of development and covid poses a minimal risk to youngsters. I'm happy to take one for the team but they wont be. Talk of herd immunity is boolers, if you have the jab you personally have protection and i'll not be using my kids to boost the numbers to protect those who choose not to have it.
If children don’t need a vaccine, why would they even be bothering with these trials? They must know a bit more than Karen on the internet about this stuff.
Gotta be seen to be Doing Something - and as Governments the world over have an open cheque book so far as the coronavirus is concerned, keep refreshing the fear >8-(
Quite happy to take the vaccine myself, but it wont be going anywhere near my kids.
It might be a good idea to differentiate between pre pubescent children and post pubescent adolescents in any reporting not just for covid. Headline using the word "children" is misleading when the body copy correctly states "adolescents".
AstraZeneca £3 a jab given at cost, Pfizer £15 a jab and £10 profit.
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But is anyone else starting to come across a disturbing number of anti-vaxxers in this HYS?
Go back to worrying about whether or not the earth is flat. At least that doesn't harm anyone around you!!
But is anyone else starting to come across a disturbing number of anti-vaxxers in this HYS?
Go back to worrying about whether or not the earth is flat. At least that doesn't harm anyone around you!!
Moderna's is £28
The EU is desperate, economically it grows weaker all the time. That is why they want governments to spend on their overpriced vaccines, rather than the brilliant AZ one that is being supplied to the world at cost, largely thanks to investment by the UK government.
Makes you wonder why Germany seem to dislike the AZ vaccine so much...
AZ is the lesser vaccine in terms of raw effectiveness but it is the better vaccine all around. You can store it in a normal fridge and it's much easier to manufacture.
Is this factually correct? I thought Pfizer was £38 a jab here in the UK! To be fair the production costs and storage costs for the Pfizer are probably higher than A-Z. But I accept your point that in a pandemic, pharma manufacturers shouldn't be trying to profiteer out of this health crisis. Pfizer is American, but I think their vaccine was developed by a German company BioNtech.
Anecdotally AZ has more transient side-effects. I had some for a few days. But in the broad scheme of things this is unimportant
Totally correct, so you can see why so many organizations would want to fund investigations into AZ.
AZ are doing it at cost price, all the others are doing it for profit, yet AZ are the ones getting the flack particularly from the EU. Something across the channel stinks.
The pfizer has to be stored at low temperatures which is the cost difference.
Can you tell us how much government money has gone into the various vaccines.
Hint: By far (several billions) AZ has received the most. Look it up.
Hint: By far (several billions) AZ has received the most. Look it up.
Evidence? Proof|?
Yea, if only buisnesses esses could operate without making a profit and thus money to pay their staff...
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Plus the hundreds of millions from the taxpayer to fund its development.
A sound investment, certainly, and well done them for selling it at cost price “until the pandemic is declared over”, but let’s not kid ourselves we’re only paying £3 a jab...??
A sound investment, certainly, and well done them for selling it at cost price “until the pandemic is declared over”, but let’s not kid ourselves we’re only paying £3 a jab...??
Special discount for blood clots and low immunization against certain strains.
Kids "well protected" from what? Hardly any kids will even notice if they contract Covid.
Protecting adults from kids is a completely different matter!
Protecting adults from kids is a completely different matter!
Do their own immune systems prevent them from spreading the virus to older members of their families?
I think once all adults have been offed they should offer it to kids because I know there is 99% survival rate but they could still get it or even die
Ummm, yeah - I think you've struck the real reason why there is such a resistance to the MMR jab - measles alone is a lot more of a risk to humans aged 1-20 than Covid, mumps is much more dangerous to adults than kids & rubella really isn't an issue except to pregnant women.
I guess we should rejoin the EU then - makes too much sense not to.
Rejoin referendum 2022 anyone?
Rejoin referendum 2022 anyone?
So we should have lockdown until there is no risk to anyone of dying from COVID? Presumably then we should all have liberties taken away to reduce the risk of diabetes and heart attack. No soft-drinks and chocolate for anyone until there is no risk of diabetes! Nobody's safe until we're all safe!
The more it’s forced on us the more it will be rejected. Haven’t they worked this out yet?
So .... if vaccines are available but kept secret you’ll demand them in your loudest voice?
Who mentioned forced?
Every vaccine this country has ever given has been voluntary, and Covid vaccination for children will be the same.
Every vaccine this country has ever given has been voluntary, and Covid vaccination for children will be the same.
Really? If I'm forced to do something I agree with anyway (like wearing a seatbelt) I just get on with it. Why endanger myself just to make a statement of puerile resistance? I'm not a toddler.
I think once all adults have been offed they should offer it to kids because I know there is 99% survival rate but they could still get it or even die
So your argument is the vaccine doesn't work so lets go stick it into some kids?
children are also well protected from covid via their own immune systems. The vaccine to a child serves no purpose other than to make big pharma billions. if you're a parent with young kids, do not let big pharma or government cronies inject the covid vaccine into your kids, their immune system will do the job.
Covid on the whole is a mild illness in children...why do they need to be vaccinated?
Spoke to two people today in the vulnerable group (over 70’s) who both stated that their second doses had been put back at least 2 weeks due to lack of vaccines supply.
Has the Astra Zeneca vaccine been tested for efficacy at 14/15 weeks?
Not good if lockdown is ending before many of the vulnerable have received a second dose.
Has the Astra Zeneca vaccine been tested for efficacy at 14/15 weeks?
Not good if lockdown is ending before many of the vulnerable have received a second dose.
It’s not fair to solely criticise Pfizer , it’s the EU governments that are advising against the AZ vaccine weekly .
Maybe it is partly political , to deflect hugely damaging criticism away from their vaccination fiasco.
Maybe it is partly political , to deflect hugely damaging criticism away from their vaccination fiasco.
Of course it is.....
We should boycott EU products. The Eu is going to need every penny it can get after this. Let's keep our money in the EU.
Actually it is not the EU, their EMA is currently supporting the use of AZ it is specific individual countries such as Germany that are suspending it's use.
First Germany suspended it for over 65's now they are allowing it for over 65's but not under 55.
But despite it's German name it was founded in the USA.
First Germany suspended it for over 65's now they are allowing it for over 65's but not under 55.
But despite it's German name it was founded in the USA.
Spoke to two people today in the vulnerable group (over 70’s) who both stated that their second doses had been put back at least 2 weeks due to lack of vaccines supply.
Has the Astra Zeneca vaccine been tested for efficacy at 14/15 weeks?
Not good if lockdown is ending before many of the vulnerable have received a second dose.
Has the Astra Zeneca vaccine been tested for efficacy at 14/15 weeks?
Not good if lockdown is ending before many of the vulnerable have received a second dose.
So that schools can open safely
The vaccines do have data that they significantly reduce the risk of even getting infected with a low viral load.
They do reduce transmission.
They do reduce transmission.
That depends entirely on whether your immune system fights it off before you can shed vaccine.
Why are you allowed to vote, can you spell X?
Why are you allowed to vote, can you spell X?
The care home data suggests the vaccine can prevent c. 60% of spreading, so you're wrong on that score.
Fairly clear by now that it doesn't even stop you getting ill. It's an IQ test at this point.
Do their own immune systems prevent them from spreading the virus to older members of their families?
If people are still as likely to get it when vaccinated, this is where mutations will occur.