Vaccines and routine immunization strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic

Ener Cagri Dinleyici*, Ray Borrow, Marco Aurélio Palazzi Safadi, Pierre van Damme, Flor M. Munoz

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Abstract

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 related disease (COVID-19) is now responsible for one of the most challenging and concerning pandemics. By August 2020, there were almost 20 million confirmed cases worldwide and well over half-million deaths. Since there is still no effective treatment or vaccine, non-pharmaceutical interventions have been implemented in an attempt to contain the spread of the virus. During times of quarantine, immunization practices in all age groups, especially routine childhood vaccines, have also been interrupted, delayed, re-organized, or completely suspended. Numerous high-income as well as low- and middle-income countries are now experiencing a rapid decline in childhood immunization coverage rates. We will, inevitably, see serious consequences related to suboptimal control of vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs) in children concurrent with or following the pandemic. Routine pediatric immunizations of individual children at clinics, mass vaccination campaigns, and surveillance for VPDs must continue as much as possible during pandemic.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)400-407
Number of pages8
JournalHuman Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics
Volume17
Issue number2
Early online date26 Aug 2020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Feb 2021

Bibliographical note

Funding Information: No funding Information.

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Publisher Copyright: © 2020 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Citation: Ener Cagri Dinleyici, Ray Borrow, Marco Aurélio Palazzi Safadi, Pierre
van Damme & Flor M. Munoz (2021) Vaccines and routine immunization strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic, Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 17:2, 400-407, DOI: 10.1080/21645515.2020.1804776

DOI: 10.1080/21645515.2020.1804776

Keywords

  • COVID-19
  • Coronavirus
  • immunization
  • pandemic
  • vaccine
  • IMPACT
  • SARS-COV-2
  • DISEASE
  • INFLUENZA
  • HEALTH
  • PNEUMONIA

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