Health officials hope the rollout of Covid shots for kids will boost routine vaccination rates that dropped during the pandemic.
A 5-year-old gets a Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine shot at the Capitol Hill Day School in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 8.Kate Ruder, Kaiser Health News
Child health experts hope community clinics like this one, along with the return to in-person classes, more well-child visits and the rollout of Covid-19 shots for younger children, can help boost routine childhood immunizations, which dropped during the pandemic. Despite a rebound, immunization rates are still lower than they were in 2019, and disparities in rates between racial and economic groups, particularly among Black children, have been aggravated.
People were reluctant to come out for routine immunizations at the height of the pandemic, said Karen Miller, an immunization nurse manager for the Denver area’sGlobal vaccination coverage in children fell from 2019 to 2020, according to aby scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization and UNICEF. Reasons included reduced access, lack of transportation, worries about Covid exposure and supply chain interruptions, the study said.
“Vaccines are so effective that I think it’s easy for families to put immunizations on the back burner, because we don’t often hear about these diseases,” Miller said.
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