The New England Journal of Medicine published Effects of Vaccination and Previous Infection on Omicron Infections in Children
This describes the outcome of vaccination in 887,193 children with the Pfizer-BionTech COVID vaccine and how the children prospered over a 6 month period.
The children were 5 to 11 years old.
The following numbers are from the appendix.
614,036 children had no vax, of whom 174,281 became infected in the mainly Omicron period. Of those 294 were hospitalised & 7 died
273,157 children had at least 1 vax, of whom 19,065 became infected in the mainly Omicron period. Of those 15 were hospitalised and none died.
The size of the two groups is different so not obvious comparing the raw numbers.
Of the children who were not vaccinated 28% became infected
Whereas, of the children who were vaccinated 7% became infected
Therefore vaccination removed a risk of infection of 21%
Of the children who were not vaccinated 1 in 2,088 were hospitalised
Whereas, of the children who were vaccinated 1 in 18,210 were hospitalised
Therefore vaccination removed a risk of 1 in 2,360 of hospitalisation
Of the children who were not vaccinated 1 in 88,000 died
Whereas, of the children who were vaccinated no one died
Therefore vaccination removed a risk of 1 in 88,000 of dying
This means that vaccination removed the following risks
a risk of death 1 in 88,000
a risk of hospitalisation of 1 in 2,400
a risk of infection of 1 in 5
If it were your decision would you vaccinate?
Calculations
No vaccine
614,036 children had no vax, of whom
174,281 infected =28.38%
294 hospitalised = 1 in 2,088
7 died = 1 in 87,719
Vaccinated
273,157 children (1 or more doses)
19,065 infected =6.98%
15 hospitalised = 1 in 18,210
0 died
28.38% - 6.98% = 21.4% infection risk removed
1/2,088 - 1/18,280 = 0.0004242 =1 in 2,357 hospital risk removed
1 in 87,719 death risk removed