Lv SR, Wang MK, Yu XL, Li XY, Yang JS. Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on routine childhood vaccinations. World J Virol 2024; 13(2): 90271 [PMID: 38984085 DOI: 10.5501/wjv.v13.i2.90271]
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Ji-Shun Yang, MD, PhD, Director, Medical Care Center, Naval Medical Center of PLA, Naval Medical University, No. 338 Huaihai West Road, Changning District, Shanghai 200052, China. jasunyang@foxmail.com
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Health Policy & Services
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World J Virol. Jun 25, 2024; 13(2): 90271 Published online Jun 25, 2024. doi: 10.5501/wjv.v13.i2.90271
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on routine childhood vaccinations
Shi-Rong Lv, Ming-Ke Wang, Xue-Lu Yu, Xin-Yue Li, Ji-Shun Yang
Shi-Rong Lv, Ming-Ke Wang, Xue-Lu Yu, Xin-Yue Li, Department of Disease Control and Prevention, Naval Medical Center of PLA, Naval Medical University, Shanghai 200052, China
Ji-Shun Yang, Medical Care Center, Naval Medical Center of PLA, Naval Medical University, Shanghai 200052, China
Co-corresponding authors: Ming-Ke Wang and Ji-Shun Yang.
Author contributions: Wang MK and Yang JS conceptualized, designed, and revised the manuscript; Lv SR wrote the draft; Yu XL and Li XY collected the literature. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript. Both Wang MK and Yang JS conceptualized, proposed, designed, and supervised the whole process of the article, and played important and indispensable roles in the manuscript preparation and revision as the co-corresponding authors.
Supported byScientific Research Foundation of Shanghai Municipal Health Commission of Changning District, No. 20234Y038.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Ji-Shun Yang, MD, PhD, Director, Medical Care Center, Naval Medical Center of PLA, Naval Medical University, No. 338 Huaihai West Road, Changning District, Shanghai 200052, China. jasunyang@foxmail.com
Received: November 29, 2023 Revised: January 25, 2024 Accepted: March 1, 2024 Published online: June 25, 2024 Processing time: 207 Days and 19.3 Hours
Abstract
Routine pediatric vaccination is one of the most effective public health inter-ventions for the control of a number of fatal diseases. However, during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, routine pediatric vaccination rates were severely affected by disruptions of health services and vaccine confidence issues. Governments and the United Nations have taken measures to re-establish routine pediatric vaccination, while additional efforts are needed to catch up and develop plans to ensure routine vaccination services for the future pandemics.
Core Tip: The impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on vaccination coverage is critical to prevent vaccine-preventable diseases during or even after the pandemic. Exploring alternative approaches to enhance pediatric vaccination rates is imperative for the sustained improvement of global public health.
