Early impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and physical distancing measures on routine childhood vaccinations in England, January to April 2020.
McDonald, Helen I;
Tessier, Elise;
White, Joanne M;
Woodruff, Matthew;
Knowles, Charlotte;
Bates, Chris;
Parry, John;
Walker, Jemma L;
Scott, J Anthony;
Smeeth, Liam;
+3 more...Yarwood, Joanne;
Ramsay, Mary;
Edelstein, Michael;
(2020)
Early impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and physical distancing measures on routine childhood vaccinations in England, January to April 2020.
EUROSURVEILLANCE, 25 (19).
pp. 7-12.
ISSN 1560-7917
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.19.2000848
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Using electronic health records, we assessed the early impact of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on routine childhood vaccination in England by 26 April 2020. Measles-mumps-rubella vaccination counts fell from February 2020, and in the 3 weeks after introduction of physical distancing measures were 19.8% lower (95% confidence interval: -20.7 to -18.9) than the same period in 2019, before improving in mid-April. A gradual decline in hexavalent vaccination counts throughout 2020 was not accentuated by physical distancing.