Children under 12 are a major group that drop vaccination percentages down significantly everywhere. The hope is that once this age group can also be vaccinated, we can find the new normal and let people individually hedge their own bets.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/leaky-vaccines...
Selection pressures and non sterilizing vaccines are what causes more virulent strains to emerge.
> Given the flu kills more kids than covid
Emphasis mine.
That won’t really make much of a difference in new strains emerging.
https://fortune.com/2021/07/14/covid-vaccine-tracker-update-...