Submitted on Monday 15th February 2021
Rejected on Thursday 18th February 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Revise Covid vaccine priority groups to include "moderate" asthmatics.
We ask Government to recognize that hospitalization/regular steroid tablet use is not the only indication of vulnerability to Covid-19 for asthma patients. Anyone on a steroid inhaler is clinically vulnerable to Covid-19 and therefore should be vaccinated as a priority.
* Research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that people with moderate to severe asthma are at increased risk of getting very sick from Covid-19.
* People with asthma are also at higher risk of developing Long Covid afterwards.
* "Moderate" asthmatics includes people who have not been hospitalized but require inhalers etc.
* Many "moderate" asthmatics followed government advice and remained isolated throughout the pandemic. We now feel abandoned and forgotten.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Decisions about who is clinically extremely vulnerable is a clinical decision, not the responsibility of the Government or House of Commons.
We could accept a petition calling for people who are judged at moderate risk (clinically vulnerable) from Covid-19 to be given increased priority in the Covid-19 vaccination programme, if that is what you want to happen.
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