> COVID-19 rates in children ages 5 to 11 are so low that there were ZERO cases of severe COVID-19 and ZERO cases of death from COVID in either the treatment (n= 1,518) or control group (n= 750).

The author seemingly uses minimizing deaths as the only measure of benefit; I don’t see a discussion of minimizing or avoiding what have been called long-COVID effects.

Honestly I have no idea if children suffer from long-COVID: either how badly or what percentage of cases but a cursory search suggests that they do. Certainly I would expect that it’s easier to use a binary metric like death in a risk-benefit analysis but I was hoping a professional in the field would have some way to account for these other risks.