My grandad is in a care home but he doesn't want to take the COVID vaccine. What shall we do?

His thinking is outdated so if he persists, let him pass.

It is his right to be a moron, but people in facilities are among the highest risk for covid. I know, as I am a nurse that works in Long Term Care

You do nothing.  This is his decision - not yours.  If he does not want the vaccine - then he does not want the vaccine.

His body, his choice. Personally I would go for the oxford one, but I am way way beyond child baring age.  Real concern since the vaccine triggers your body to produce antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, and spike proteins in turn contain syncytin-homologous proteins that are essential for the formation of placenta. If a woman’s immune system starts reacting against syncytin-1, then there is a possibility she could become infertile. This means a women who does react (not all will obviously) will just abort over and over again due to the placenta being attacked by her own body.

I'm 53 and got the first of the 2 vaccinations already. All I had was a sore arm. I'm healthy as a horse. (Second vaccination is in a few weeks.)

I'm likely not that far removed from your granpappy's age. Tell that fuddyduddy to get his act together to protect himself and the family and take it. (It could of been worse, pooh-bear could of re-introduced small pox or a variant of polio.) 

Maybe tell him it can give him it can give him superpowers. X-ray vision so he can see through women's skirts. ;-)

The vaccine has been released to the public thus approved for use by the FDA under emergency use authorization and has been tested and shown to be effective in 95% of the population studied. The remaining 5% where failure occurred showed reduced symptoms in terms of severity and more importantly no deaths occurred in those failures.

It's incorrect to say that in 5% of the vaccinated group that no IgG or IgM was made and so it proved that they were not immune. The vaccine also involves T cell immunity and not just humoral immunity and combined between the two we saw that in those 5% that were vaccinated and showed symptoms that at least partial immunity was at work.

As far as the time required to develop a vaccine they had already started the vaccine production for SARS-Cov and MERS and updated it's SARS-Cov-2 .

"Fortunately, we already have a head start on the first phase of vaccine development: research. The outbreaks of SARS and MERS, which are also caused by coronaviruses, spurred lots of research. SARS and SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, are roughly 80 percent identical, and both use so-called spike proteins to grab onto a specific receptor found on cells in human lungs. This helps explain how scientists developed a test for Covid-19 so quickly."

We already produce a new flu vaccine every year and so come on with this 5 year requirement is simply bull. The five normal time limit is if you start with a completely new virus and do it the old fashion way. With new technology a lot of the time is compressed.

Let me repeat this, Nobody who took the vaccine died in spite of the 5% failure rate in preventing disease. It also prevented infection in those exposed to the virus. 

Doing nothing is foolish not only for the person not taking the vaccine right now when they can but being a source of transmission if it hits them now.

There is currently no approved vaccine for covid in the USA.

I don't know about where you live.

If your granddad (learn to spell) doesn't want to take it, then he doesn't take it.

Why would you force it on him? 

The vaccines are UNDER-tested.  Every doctor in the world knows this.

Even if your granddad takes the vaccine, there is no guarantee that it will help him avoid covid.

1. WE DO NOT KNOW HOW COVID IMMUNITY WORKS

2. the vaccines are 5% ineffective at creating IgG and IgM antibodies

3. People how have taken the vaccine and have ineffectively developed IgG and IgM antibodies are still getting covid, although in lesser amounts then the general population.

In the US, when we are told that the vaccines have been tested as much as every other APPROVED vaccine that is a GIGANTIC misrepresentation of the truth.

- remember there are NO approved covid vaccines in the USA.  We have "emergency authorized use" which is NOT an approval.

- the covid vaccines was tested on 22500 people over 3 months prior to gaining EUA.

- the most recent approved vaccine by the FDA occurred in 2019.  This vaccine had about the same number of testing participants but monitored the participants for FIVE YEARS not 3 months.

Not all countries have advanced medical directives.  In the USA, 44% of people in the long term care facilities have advanced medical directives which indicates how they want to be treated.  Many of these people have no care orders which means that they will take the chances of not recovering from an illness because they don't seek treatment.

If advanced medical directives or something similar exists in your country, your granddad should consider having one so that in the event that something happens.

What the Queen and Duke do should have no bearing on what you choose to do.

I'm guessing they do a lot of things I don't do.

And I'm sure I eat a healthier died than they do. 

Ask him if he would rather die from covid, then get a vaccine that could prevent him from getting it....

He's completely wrong. If he's vulnerable he should get the vaccine. Vaccines don't make your immune system worse. 

If the Queen and Duke have had it, what is so special about him?

Ask him that.

Everyone who lives in a communal setting gets the vaccine. If he won't, you'll have to bring him home to live with you, or make other arrangement.