With global vaccine supplies still tight, much of the world is struggling to vaccinate adults in the quest to end the pandemic.the shot made by Pfizer and BioNTechModerna aims to be next in line, saying it will submit its teen data to the US Food and Drug Administration and other global regulators early next month.
There were no COVID-19 diagnoses in those given two doses of the Moderna vaccine compared with four cases among children given dummy shots. While children are far less likely than adults to get seriously ill from COVID-19, they represent about 14 per cent of the US's coronavirus cases.
Protection against what? The risk of dying of Covid is near to zero for youngers. The risk of vaccination reactions was quite high. I remember 90% for headaches etc...