States eased those policies based on politics as much as COVID-19 death rates or case counts, according to new research from the University of Washington. The researchers also found that states with large Black communities, despite those communities being hit hardest by the pandemic, also lifted restrictions earlier.
Addressing disruptions in childhood routine immunisation services during the COVID-19 pandemic: perspectives from Nepal, Senegal and Liberia
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Sameer M Dixit, Moussa Sarr, Daouda M Gueye, Kyle Muther, T Ruston Yarnko, Robert A Bednarczyk, Adolphus T Clarke, Fatoumata Diakhite, Aliou Diallo, Bonheur Dounebaine, Shankar B Duwadi, Anna S Ellis, Nancy Fullman, Nathaniel Gerthe, Jhalak S Gautam, Kyra A Hester, Gloria Ikilezi, Rokhaya S Mbengue, Souleymane Mboup, Birahim P Ndiaye, Rajesh Man Rajbhandari, David E Phillips, Matthew C Freeman
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While routine immunisation (RI) was among the health services most affected during the earlier phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, country programmes employed various mitigation strategies to maintain vaccine delivery and/or resume interrupted programming.