[mdm_]

I've heard other people say this and in addition to the common response of helping to reduce spread, I wonder: won't those children grow up to become adults who might experience more serious infection/symptoms? Isn't this like the Chicken Pox vaccine that is commonly given to infants because the disease can be more severe when contracted as an adult?

[naasking]

> I've heard other people say this and in addition to the common response of helping to reduce spread, I wonder: won't those children grow up to become adults who might experience more serious infection/symptoms?

Children exposed to COVID develop strong immunity even if they have no symptoms [1], so the vaccine likely wouldn't convey any more protection than they've already developed.

[1] https://pediatrics.duke.edu/news/children-mild-or-asymptomat...

[mdm_]

>Study authors said the findings suggest vaccinating young children against COVID-19 could also elicit a similar or greater degree of protection than that of adults.

>Given similarities in the response to natural infection in children and adults, it is likely that vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 will also elicit a similar degree of protection across the full spectrum of age, as has recently been reported for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in children 12–15 years of age (42). Though we cannot directly compare our results to the neutralizing antibody titers reported in vaccine trial studies, both the vaccine trial data and our results suggest that younger age may be associated with greater neutralizing antibody responses.

I'm not a doctor, but doesn't this actually suggest that the younger the age we can administer COVID-19 vaccines, the stronger the antibody response is likely to be?