This is an extremely important article to read about how families can think about the risk to unvaccinated children, after most adults are vaccinate, but in the months or longer it may take until children are vaccinated.
https://twitter.com/ProfEmilyOster/status/1372504222248415234
I get the criticism & concern over both the characterization of the risks (an attempt to compare the risk of young children & vaccinated seniors), and the many children (and their relatives) who may have higher risks than the average.
Health & education leaders have all generally come around to the desperate need to open up schools, especially for younger children, due to a rigorous cost-benefit to the children (and their family), especially as teachers & adults get vaccinated.
.@ProfEmilyOster is providing the published statistics on transmission, infections, hospitalization, death for children: her finding are most definitely built on the best available data. I encourage you to read the article not as a proscription of what to do for your family ...
But, read the article to kick off a necessary conversation of how you may adjust your life with small children, when the adults in their lives are vaccinated. What risks you are willing to take for what benefits as we approach the potentially long wait for children's vaccines.
Finally, you may disagree w/ her conclusions, but there are few people in the world more qualified to talk about costs & benefits of behaviors in health than @ProfEmilyOster whose stellar academic career is all about digesting health research & translating that to decision making
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