Early impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing measures on routine childhood vaccinations in England, January to April 2020
McDonald, HI
; Tessier, E; White, JM; Woodruff, M; Knowles, C; Bates, C; Parry, J; Walker, JL; Scott, JA; Smeeth, L; +3 more...Yarwood, J; Ramsay, M; Edelstein, M and
(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: 10.1101/2020.05.07.20094557
; Tessier, E; White, JM; Woodruff, M; Knowles, C; Bates, C; Parry, J; Walker, JL; Scott, JA; Smeeth, L; +3 more...Yarwood, J; Ramsay, M; Edelstein, M and
(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: 10.1101/2020.05.07.20094557
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.
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