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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Eurosurveillance, 19(25), 2020

DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.es.2020.25.19.2000848

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Early impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and physical distancing measures on routine childhood vaccinations in England, January to April 2020

Journal article published in 2020 by McDonald Hi, Helen I. McDonald ORCID, Elise Tessier, White Jm, Joanne M. White, Matthew Woodruff, Charlotte Knowles, Chris Bates ORCID, John Parry, Walker Jl, Jemma L. Walker, Scott Ja, J. Anthony Scott, Liam Smeeth, Joanne Yarwood and other authors.
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Abstract

Using electronic health records, we assessed the early impact of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on routine childhood vaccination in England by 26 April 2020. Measles-mumps-rubella vaccination counts fell from February 2020, and in the 3 weeks after introduction of physical distancing measures were 19.8% lower (95% confidence interval: −20.7 to −18.9) than the same period in 2019, before improving in mid-April. A gradual decline in hexavalent vaccination counts throughout 2020 was not accentuated by physical distancing.