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Covid-19 Vaccine

Autistic_bookworm

Hi everyone

my 8 year old who is diagnosed ASC has his first Covid-19 vaccine today. He hasn’t had a needle since he was little. I’m anxious Grimacing about taking him because I don’t know what to expect. Can anyone give me advice and tips please. I’m planning on taking his tablet to hopefully distract him

thanks 

Peter

  • in reply to Martin

    Thanks Blush he was very brave and was fine. Think I was more anxious and stressed that him lol.  before I took him I did my research and totally agree with @Martin who also by the looks of it did his research. 

  • in reply to NAS77723

    This is not true. I quote:

    "In a clinical trial of 2268 children aged 5 to 11 years randomised to receive 2 doses of 10 micrograms Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine or placebo, the vaccine was found to be safe and immunogenic.

    Immune responses in vaccinated 5 to 11 year olds were at least as good as those measured in 15 to 25 year olds who received 30 micrograms of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Vaccine efficacy against confirmed COVID-19 was noted to be 90.7%, although with considerable uncertainty in this estimate due to the relatively small numbers involved.  Adverse reactions due to vaccination were mainly low-grade local and systematic reactions lasting one to 2 days.

    Compared to adults and older children studied in previous trials, children aged 5 to 11 years reported more injection-site redness (15 to 19% vs 5 to 7%) and local swelling (10 to 15% vs 5 to 8%), but less fever (3 to 7% vs 1 to 20%) and less chills (5 to 10% vs 6 to 42%). Children aged 5 to 11 years were just as likely as 12 to 15 year olds to experience swelling of local lymph glands (0.9% vs 0.8%). No cases of myocarditis were observed.

    Initial safety data from programmatic use of COVID-19 vaccination in 5 to 11 year olds in the United States indicates no new or unexpected concerns. More data is expected to accrue over time as experience with vaccination of this age group of children increases internationally."

    Hasn't the autistic community suffered enough from vaccine-related scare stories?

  • Don't do it!! The evidence is clear that the risks from the vaccine is greater than the risks from covid in children of all ages.

  • I have a distinct memory of being given an injection when I was about 4, whoever was doing the injection said, "This won't hurt", but then it did. I felt more upset by being lied to than through the pain of the injection. I'm autistic. I think not giving false information is probably the best thing to do. Minimising the expectation of pain, and its short duration, would be useful though.