This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition 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.
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* 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.
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.
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.
We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.