There's still a large group that thinks it's a good idea, and they're doing it. But i think all the usual barriers to randomization are not present. If you give it to a kid, i have no confidence that you lower severe disease. I mean, there's just no signal. And then the last bit o neance is, since these vaccine trials have been going on, kids have been getting infected with covid. At least 75 % of kids in this age group have already gotten coved. It's very difficult to take a kid who's already at low risk, who already had covet and already did well, and give them a vaccine that will even lower
When it comes to the COVID-19 vaccination, is the risk of myocarditis greater than the benefit to a healthy male teen? Is natural immunity really better than vaccination--and were we right to mask the kids? Dr. Vinay Prasad of the University of California San Francisco talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about what we learned and didn't learn from COVID so far and how we should handle a pandemic going forward.