The COVID-19 pandemic cost at least seventeen million children routine vaccinations, recent research from The Lancet shows. According to the research, “routine immunisation services faced stark challenges in 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic causing the most widespread and largest global disruption in recent history.” Senior author and Assistant Professor from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington’s School of Medicine, Jonathan Mosser, sat down with Health Issues India, for a 42-minute interview to discuss the findings of the study. Explaining the figures, Mosser told me “our study estimates that global vaccine coverage in 2020 may have dropped by 7.7 percent for the third dose of the diphtheria, tetanus pertussis vaccine and by 8.9 percent for the first dose of the measles vaccine compared to what would have been expected had there been no pandemic. “This will translate into an additional 8.5 million children who missed the third … Read Full Article about Routine vaccinations took a hit in the pandemic: Jonathan Mosser explains why
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