[TedPetrou]

Did you see all of the side effects from the vaccine vs the placebo? Here it is in percentages:

* Redness 5.8 vs 1.1

* Swelling 6.9 vs 1

* Pain 86 vs 23

* Fever 10 vs 1

* Fatigue 60 vs 46

* Headache 55 vs 35

* Chills 28 vs 10

* Vomiting 3 vs 1

* Use of pain med 37 vs 10

Only 1100 kids in the study and only 660 of them were followed up at least 2 months after the 2nd dose. These numbers seem unreasonably low.

This means that hundreds of kids had worse reactions than the placebo. All of this to prevent 11 symptomatic cases. I couldn't find the prognosis of these 11 symptomatic cases, but its highly likely that all of them were mild. To me, it seems like the overall health and well being of the vaccinated group was less than the placebo.