As a parent, I’m ok with those odds even if my kids don’t get much direct benefit. Contributing to reduced community transmission is worth it.
As far as mild side-effects go, another way of putting it is that at least as many kids will experience side effects from the vaccine as from Covid itself.
...and millions of kids are going to get this vaccine in the coming months.
I don't think 0.4% vs. 0.1% with n=1127 is significant, and the study mentions no patterns were observed.
We still have systems like VAERS to ensure side-effects that are too rare to be caught by a study of this size still get caught.
* 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.