Quoted from PinPatch:I don't apologise for not injecting my children for a disease that has virtually zero bad outcomes for their age.
Show me the 5 - 10 year old studies showing Mrna is safe and I will gladly get it.
US is averaging over 2000 daily hospitalisations for Covid right now. Big country but still sounds like a lot of hospitalisations. In the medical world hospitalisations are considered a serious outcome. I suspect this would be in line with relatively recent paediatric vaccines like Rotavirus, HIB and chicken pox for hospitalisations even though those diseases cause relatively few deaths in 1st world countries.
Size wise the studies in 5-11 year olds are middling. A few thousand. Enough to get an idea of the more common side effects and comparisons to those over 12, but not rare side effects. We all have different comfort zones on how quickly to take up new medicines, risk benefit etc