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by hammock 1660 days ago
>More recently, we've also gotten data for many vaccines showing that they're also effective for children and adolescents.

This is my principal area of concern. If I recall correctly, the studies that were submitted to FDA for approval for young children did not show improvement in hospitalizations or deaths, in fact there was not a single death in any of the groups, rather they relied on showing the jabs successfully produced antibodies (a much lower standard).

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Recently some of the data touted here actually showed increase death counts at times in children that were vaccinated than those that weren't.
> did not show improvement in hospitalizations or deaths

Well, it's not surprising that there would be fewer deaths in children. We'd need a much larger study and I expect that this data will become available now that the vaccines are started to be more widely distributed.

> rather they relied on showing the jabs successfully produced antibodies (a much lower standard)

IIRC the study also found that the vaccine was effective at preventing infections.