Kids and COVID: why young immune systems are still on top

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We know latest since about June 2020 that children are little affected by the global Covid-19 pandemic. So why are we demanding or even forcing minors to get vaccinated and risk their health with new vaccines that have not yet been properly evaluated over the long term?

"... Data collected by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from hospitals across the country suggest that people under the age of 18 have accounted for less than 2% of hospitalizations due to COVID-19 — a total of 3,649 children between March 2020 and late August 2021. Some children do get very sick, and more than 420 have died in the United States, but the majority of those with severe illness have been adults — a trend that has been borne out in many parts of the world. ...
This makes SARS-CoV-2 somewhat anomalous. For most other viruses, from influenza to respiratory syncytial virus, young children and older adults are typically the most vulnerable; the risk of bad outcomes by age can be represented by a U-shaped curve. But with COVID-19, the younger end of that curve is largely chopped off. ...
Research is beginning to reveal that the reason children have fared well against COVID-19 could lie in the innate immune response — the body’s crude but swift reaction to pathogens. Kids seem to have an innate response ...
For now, there is no clear evidence that children are more vulnerable to or more affected by Delta compared with earlier variants. ..."

Kids and COVID: why young immune systems are still on top Innate immunity might be the key to why children have fared better with the virus. But the Delta variant poses fresh unknowns.