Did you read their analysis on page 27?
0.4% had severe adverse events, with no pattern.
0.4% had severe adverse events, with no pattern.
> Serious adverse events are defined as: • Death; • A life-threatening adverse event; • Inpatient hospitalization or prolongation of existing hospitalization; • A persistent or significant incapacity or substantial disruption of the ability to conduct normal life functions; • A congenital anomaly/birth defect; • An important medical event that based on appropriate medical judgement may jeopardize the individual and may require medical or surgical intervention to prevent one of the outcomes listed above.
It would not take very many such "serious adverse events" in a trial of 1100 before I'd argue that the vaccine is not safe for children.
And yes -- for an illness that is essentially asymptomatic in children, that's a legitimate concern.
Another way of putting it: this vaccine will make at least as many children as sick as getting Covid itself.
But it was indeed the 7 days following administration, not immediately after.
I guess I don't see a headache or fever from the vaccine as the same kind of sick as Covid, so no need to pursue the conversation if we disagree on that.