Thai high school students to start getting Pfizer jabs on Oct 4th - hope to open schools Nov 1st

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Thai high school students to start getting Pfizer jabs on Oct 4th - hope to open schools Nov 1st

 

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Thailand's education authorities have produced a timeline for the vaccination of students using the Pfizer vaccine, reported Channel 7.

 

The aim is to vaccinate as many students aged 12-18 in M1- M6 (the secondary school years) as possible in 29 deep red provinces including Bangkok.

 

4.3 million is the target and the authorities are saying there is enough vaccine to go round and students who get a first jab at the beginning of October will be able to get their second dose before the end of the month.

 

In this way it is hoped that schools will be able to reopen for the second semester that starts on November 1st. 

 

Many schools in Thailand have been shut since Songkran with students doing online classes.

 

The timeline is as follows:

 

10th to 17th September: name collection

 

17th to 22nd: PR with parents

 

21st to 24th gain parental permission

 

25th/26th: lists of names approved and provincial and Bangkok authorities make preparations

 

1st October: sites for jabs prepared

 

4th October: vaccinations begin.

 

Where possible children will receive their jabs at schools though other sites will be considered if the facilities are not appropriate. 

 

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[actonion]

Lots and lots of  Pfizer vaccines  available now  im wondering is it because the expire date  of said vaccine is getting close, before this it was  Astra zenneca   thats was available

[hotchilli]

I'm all for 100% teachers being vaccinated but I'm on the fence if it's really safe for kids?

 

[dinsdale]

30 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

I'm all for 100% teachers being vaccinated but I'm on the fence if it's really safe for kids?

 

How many vaccinations did you have when you were a kid? 

[James105]

Ok so if they are vaccinating kids now, who have an almost zero chance of becoming seriously ill from Covid and don't need the vaccine, then I guess we can presume that every single old/vulnerable person has now been offered 2 doses of the vaccine.    So that being the case, why are the bars still closed?    If that isn't the case, why are they vaccinating the people who don't need a vaccine before those that do?

[Stargeezr]

They are talking about children over 12 and teens getting the jab.

  I guess they do not want the higher grade schools to be total COVID factories.

  Any child under 12 will not be vaccinated, and those will be the ones bringing COVID back to Mom and

Dad and other family members.  Good Luck parents.

Geezer

[tingtong]

Would like to see same drive for university students too...

But read only high school, 12-18...

 

[lolalol]

Hope to open schools on Nov 1st??? 

 

Why don't they open the school first before talking about opening the country in October.   Seriously. What is this nonsense?

[hotchilli]

13 hours ago, dinsdale said:

How many vaccinations did you have when you were a kid? 

All the vaccinations going that had been proven effective over years of trials and injections.

None for Covid, that as yet have not been proved safe for kids.

[zzaa09]

7 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

All the vaccinations going that had been proven effective over years of trials and injections.

None for Covid, that as yet have not been proved safe for kids.

....and all the while, they're becoming increasingly infected worldwide.

So what to do.

[hotchilli]

40 minutes ago, zzaa09 said:

....and all the while, they're becoming increasingly infected worldwide.

So what to do.

If a child has an underlying illness, which is likely to be targeted by Covid I would opt to have the injection.

Better to get the immune system used to covid and thus faster to react if the Covid infection is transmitted later.

If no underlying issues and fit & healthy I'd hang-fire a month or two and see what happens.

 

[jacko45k]

12 hours ago, James105 said:

Ok so if they are vaccinating kids now, who have an almost zero chance of becoming seriously ill from Covid and don't need the vaccine, then I guess we can presume that every single old/vulnerable person has now been offered 2 doses of the vaccine.    So that being the case, why are the bars still closed?    If that isn't the case, why are they vaccinating the people who don't need a vaccine before those that do?

As far as I know only 20% of the population is double (or more) vaccinated in Thailand. I know for a fact all the old and vulnerable have not yet been vaccinated, including those that wish to be. Bars are still closed as there is still Covid in the general population, which would spread if they were mixing in a bar environment. 

So it is not the case.

In fact many of your presumptions here are false.

 

Why vaccinate children, because they are being hospitalized for Covid, and are a major link in it's spread. It is being planned under medical advice.

[JWRC]

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

All the vaccinations going that had been proven effective over years of trials and injections.

None for Covid, that as yet have not been proved safe for kids.

or Adults.

[cyril sneer]

maybe they see adults with underlying health issues as a burden so have chosen to vaccinate the kids before them

 

they will still spread it after being vaccinated