Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-reported 12-month pneumococcal vaccination series completion rates in Canada.

ABSTRACT: Routine childhood vaccination improves health and prevents morbidity and mortality from vaccine-preventable diseases. There are indications that the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted immunization rates globally, but systematic studies on this are still lacking in Canada. This study aims to add knowledge on the pandemic's effect on children's immunization rates with pneumococcal vaccine using self-reported immunization data from CANImmunize. An interrupted time series analysis was conducted on aggregated monthly enrollment of children on the platform (2016-2021) and their pneumococcal immunization series completion rates (2016-2020). Predicted trends before and after the onset of the COVID19-related restriction (March 1, 2020) were compared by means of an Autoregressive Integrated M

SUBMITTER: Atkinson KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9891678 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature