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There's experts out there who seem to think that children catching covid whilst they are kids is actually the best course of action on balance. Better than vaccinating them as kids, and better than otherwise sheilding them away from it (if you could) so they get Covid first time as adults. 'Let it rip' if you want to call it that. Others disagree, of course.
This was roughly the JCVI stance, until recently, when Prof Dingwall was booted out and the stance is now leaning more towards mass vaccinating teenagers at least. Although they won't explicitly come out and advise that either! Teenagers considered more vulnerable looks set to go ahead sooner than later.
Hard to know what to make of it as laymen.
My layman's understanding is that the vaccine comes with a small risk which is the same across all age groups but because kids have a better resistance it becomes a tighter call.
The hope IMO was that by focusing on those at highest risk we would eventually get herd immunity and we wouldn't need to make a decision about whether to vaccinate children.
Instead with delta we're seeing the vaccinated spread it and with no restrictions or a culture of good hygiene we're at an estimated 1 in 70 at a time being infected and increasing. This means its a safe assumption that every year group in every school will have covid positive children.