A different kind of COVID-19 vaccine concern has emerged in recent months: Many kids aren’t getting their routine immunizations, potentially leaving them vulnerable to preventable illnesses like meningitis and measles.
A different kind of COVID-19 vaccine concern has emerged in recent months: Many kids aren’t getting their routine immunizations, potentially leaving them vulnerable to vaccine-preventable illnesses.
Previous data support these findings: A May 15 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report charted a “a notable decrease” in orders for routine pediatric vaccinations during the period between Jan. 6 and April 19, compared to a similar timespan one year earlier. This decline, the CDC said, started the week after President Trump’s COVID-19 national-emergency declaration on March 13.
— CDC report published in May As social-distancing measures ease up, they added, kids who haven’t been vaccinated will be more susceptible to diseases like measles. “I remember treating children with these diseases as recently as the 1980s, and we do not want to return to a time when parents had to worry their infant could die of meningitis — especially when we have a vaccine to prevent it,” Goza said. “The COVID-19 pandemic is giving all of us a real-time education in what this vulnerability feels like. Fortunately, we have vaccines to protect children and teens against 16 different diseases.
Health officials in New York City, the onetime U.S. epicenter of the pandemic, told the outlet that compared to 2019, vaccine doses were down 63% two months after the city’s shutdown began.
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