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COVID-19 pandemic impact on childhood vaccination coverage in Quebec, Canada

Response measures to mitigate the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic impacted access to routine vaccination services. We evaluate the impact of the pandemic on routine infant vaccination uptake by comparing vaccination coverage, vaccine delays and doses administered in 2019 and 2020, in Quebec, Canad...

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Autores principales: Kiely, Marilou, Mansour, Thowiba, Brousseau, Nicholas, Rafferty, Ellen, Paudel, Yuba Raj, Sadarangani, Manish, Svenson, Lawrence W., Robinson, Joan L., Gagneur, Arnaud, Driedger, S. Michelle, MacDonald, Shannon E.
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9553134/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34920686
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2021.2007707
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author Kiely, Marilou
Mansour, Thowiba
Brousseau, Nicholas
Rafferty, Ellen
Paudel, Yuba Raj
Sadarangani, Manish
Svenson, Lawrence W.
Robinson, Joan L.
Gagneur, Arnaud
Driedger, S. Michelle
MacDonald, Shannon E.
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Mansour, Thowiba
Brousseau, Nicholas
Rafferty, Ellen
Paudel, Yuba Raj
Sadarangani, Manish
Svenson, Lawrence W.
Robinson, Joan L.
Gagneur, Arnaud
Driedger, S. Michelle
MacDonald, Shannon E.
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description Response measures to mitigate the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic impacted access to routine vaccination services. We evaluate the impact of the pandemic on routine infant vaccination uptake by comparing vaccination coverage, vaccine delays and doses administered in 2019 and 2020, in Quebec, Canada. Using a population-based vaccination registry, we compared vaccination coverage at 3, 5, 13 and 19 months of age between 2019 and 2020 cohorts each month from January to November. For vaccine delays, we measured the cumulative proportion vaccinated in each targeted cohort monthly. We also compared the measles-containing vaccines administered before 24 months of age between the same period in 2019 and 2020. A decline in vaccination coverage and children vaccinated on time was observed in all cohorts during the first months of the pandemic. The greatest impact was observed for the 18-month vaccination visit with a difference in vaccination coverage between both cohorts of 30.9% in May. Measles-containing doses administered during the first months of the pandemic were lower in 2020 compared with 2019: −21.1% in March (95%CI-21.6;-20.4), and −39.2% in April (95%CI-40.0;-38.2). After May, the coverage increased for all cohorts to reach pre-pandemic levels after a few months for most target ages. Routine childhood vaccinations were affected during the first months of the pandemic, but catch-up occurred thereafter and vaccination coverage in affected cohorts were very close to levels of 2019 after a few months of follow-up. Real-time monitoring of childhood vaccination is essential but also for other vaccination programs, severely affected by the pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-95531342022-10-12 COVID-19 pandemic impact on childhood vaccination coverage in Quebec, Canada Kiely, Marilou Mansour, Thowiba Brousseau, Nicholas Rafferty, Ellen Paudel, Yuba Raj Sadarangani, Manish Svenson, Lawrence W. Robinson, Joan L. Gagneur, Arnaud Driedger, S. Michelle MacDonald, Shannon E. Hum Vaccin Immunother Coronavirus – Research Paper Response measures to mitigate the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic impacted access to routine vaccination services. We evaluate the impact of the pandemic on routine infant vaccination uptake by comparing vaccination coverage, vaccine delays and doses administered in 2019 and 2020, in Quebec, Canada. Using a population-based vaccination registry, we compared vaccination coverage at 3, 5, 13 and 19 months of age between 2019 and 2020 cohorts each month from January to November. For vaccine delays, we measured the cumulative proportion vaccinated in each targeted cohort monthly. We also compared the measles-containing vaccines administered before 24 months of age between the same period in 2019 and 2020. A decline in vaccination coverage and children vaccinated on time was observed in all cohorts during the first months of the pandemic. The greatest impact was observed for the 18-month vaccination visit with a difference in vaccination coverage between both cohorts of 30.9% in May. Measles-containing doses administered during the first months of the pandemic were lower in 2020 compared with 2019: −21.1% in March (95%CI-21.6;-20.4), and −39.2% in April (95%CI-40.0;-38.2). After May, the coverage increased for all cohorts to reach pre-pandemic levels after a few months for most target ages. Routine childhood vaccinations were affected during the first months of the pandemic, but catch-up occurred thereafter and vaccination coverage in affected cohorts were very close to levels of 2019 after a few months of follow-up. Real-time monitoring of childhood vaccination is essential but also for other vaccination programs, severely affected by the pandemic. Taylor & Francis 2021-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9553134/ /pubmed/34920686 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2021.2007707 Text en © 2021 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) ), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
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Mansour, Thowiba
Brousseau, Nicholas
Rafferty, Ellen
Paudel, Yuba Raj
Sadarangani, Manish
Svenson, Lawrence W.
Robinson, Joan L.
Gagneur, Arnaud
Driedger, S. Michelle
MacDonald, Shannon E.
COVID-19 pandemic impact on childhood vaccination coverage in Quebec, Canada
title COVID-19 pandemic impact on childhood vaccination coverage in Quebec, Canada
title_full COVID-19 pandemic impact on childhood vaccination coverage in Quebec, Canada
title_fullStr COVID-19 pandemic impact on childhood vaccination coverage in Quebec, Canada
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title_short COVID-19 pandemic impact on childhood vaccination coverage in Quebec, Canada
title_sort covid-19 pandemic impact on childhood vaccination coverage in quebec, canada
topic Coronavirus – Research Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9553134/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34920686
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2021.2007707
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