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The COVID-19 Pandemic s Long-Term Impact on Pediatric Vaccination Rates

Amanda , 27, scheduled a routine vaccine appointment for her one-year-old in March 2020, the week after her husband’s planned spring break from work. The last thing she expected was that in that same month, the world would be upended when COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic. In the early scramble of lockdown, Amanda called her pediatrician to reschedule her child’s vaccines for a later date. “Then more months went by,” she recalls, and she just kept putting it off. Now, a year later, Amanda knows it’s time to get that appointment on the calendar. “He’s already had all his basic stuff: three rounds of Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis) and his MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella), so we’ve checked the major boxes,” she says. “I knew this other stuff his fourth dose of Tdap and the Hib (

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