The whole idea that kids don't get sick from COVID is just wrong: From Dykstra J. Pediatrics 2024: "As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic spread throughout the United States, children initially were generally less likely to experience severe illness, hospitalization, and death compared with adults.1–3 Yet COVID-19 quickly became the seventh leading cause of death for 1- to 17-year-olds from 2020 to 2022 and killed an estimated 1086 children.4 To date, studies using death certificate and hospital discharge data have described the underlying conditions that increased the risk of mortality and morbidity from COVID-19 among children" Given that the risks from the vaccine are far less than the risk from the disease recommending vaccination is reasonable.
The whole idea that kids don't get sick from COVID is just wrong: From Dykstra J. Pediatrics 2024: "As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic spread throughout the United States, children initially were generally less likely to experience severe illness, hospitalization, and death compared with adults.1–3 Yet COVID-19 quickly became the seventh leading cause of death for 1- to 17-year-olds from 2020 to 2022 and killed an estimated 1086 children.4 To date, studies using death certificate and hospital discharge data have described the underlying conditions that increased the risk of mortality and morbidity from COVID-19 among children" Given that the risks from the vaccine are far less than the risk from the disease recommending vaccination is reasonable.
He didn't say children don't get sick from COVID, He said children are incredibly unlikely to die from it. The numbers you just posted bear this out