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Kaiser Permanente study: Child vaccination rates have declined during pandemic
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LOS ANGELES - The numbers of recommended vaccine doses administered to children, including for measles, decreased dramatically after the declaration of a national state of emergency in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a Kaiser Permanente study.
While the decrease was lower and recovered in children under 2 years of age, it was more severe and persistent in older children, according to the study s lead author, Dr. Bradley Ackerson, a Kaiser Permanente South Bay Medical Center pediatric infectious disease specialist and an investigator with the Kaiser Permanente Southern California Department of Research & Evaluation s vaccine team.
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PASADENA, Calif., April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The numbers of recommended vaccine doses, including measles vaccine, administered to children decreased dramatically after the declaration of a national state of emergency on March 13, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published in Pediatrics. While the decrease was lower and recovered in children under 2 years of age, it was more severe and persistent in older children. When vaccination rates decline, we worry about an increase in vaccine-preventable diseases that can be harmful to children, said the study s lead author, Bradley Ackerson, MD, a Kaiser Permanente South Bay Medical Center pediatric infectious disease specialist and an investigator with the Kaiser Permanente Southern California Department of Research & Evaluation s vaccine team. Also, we know there has been a reduction in childhood vaccinations worldwide, and as COVID-19 restrictions are
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The study found that patients who were consistently inactive had 1.73 times greater odds of ICU admission than those who were consistently active, and their odds for death were 2.49 times greater.