A population-based paediatric Covid-19 vaccination progress and outcomes: The Malta case.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Covid-19 is still pandemic with population vaccination, including among children, remaining the mainstay for hastening the exit from the pandemic. The article provides an insight in Malta's national paediatric vaccination modus operandi, vaccination uptake, and epidemiological trends while exploring geographical social inequalities among the ≤ 15 years cohort up till end of August 2022.

Methods

The Vaccination Coordination Unit in Malta's only regional hospital provided an account of the strategic roll-out along with anonymised cumulative vaccination doses by age band and district. Descriptive and multivariant logistic regression analyses were performed.

Results

By mid-August 2022, 44.18% of the under 15's population had received at least 1 vaccine dose. A

SUBMITTER: Cuschieri S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10070778 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature