Early impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and social 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 COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing measures on routine childhood vaccinations in England, January to April 2020.
medRxiv preprint.
ISSN 1468-5833
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.07.20094557
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Abstract
Electronic health records were used to assess the early impact of COVID-19 on routine childhood vaccination in England to 26 April 2020.
MMR vaccination counts fell from February 2020, and in the three weeks after introduction of social distancing measures were 19.8% lower (95% CI −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 on introduction of social distancing.