More recently, we've also gotten data for many vaccines showing that they're also effective for children and adolescents.
Lastly, another important group is the elderly. Some studies suggest that they respond more poorly to the vaccine and that the protection may last a shorter time. In response, many countries have prioritized the elderly for receiving booster shots (3rd dose).
This is my principal area of concern. If I recall correctly, the studies that were submitted to FDA for approval for young children did not show improvement in hospitalizations or deaths, in fact there was not a single death in any of the groups, rather they relied on showing the jabs successfully produced antibodies (a much lower standard).
Well, it's not surprising that there would be fewer deaths in children. We'd need a much larger study and I expect that this data will become available now that the vaccines are started to be more widely distributed.
> rather they relied on showing the jabs successfully produced antibodies (a much lower standard)
IIRC the study also found that the vaccine was effective at preventing infections.
Even that might not be quite the best end result to be looking for (unless you own the jab patents).
Shouldn't we be looking at clinical outcomes of covid patients, or counts of severe covid cases instead?
If we optimized for marriage rate in the world we might end up with a whole lot of unhappy couples and/or broken homes.