Originally Posted by rickair7777

Or they can be vaccinated for their own benefit...

To allow them to participate in school, sports, etc and allow their parents to work and feed them instead of staying home providing daycare.

Like anything else there's a tradeoff between the risks of vaccination vs. covid or social isolation. Vaccine risks are exceptionally low and the delat variant is affecting young people more.

It is appropriate for the gov to go slow with kids, since the adult trial results do not automatically in all cases translate to child biology.