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Abstract
Since March 2020, Brazil has faced the pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), which has severely modified the way in which the population lives and uses health services. As such, face-to-face attendance has dropped dramatically, even for child vaccination, due to measures of social distancing to mitigate the transmission of the virus. Several countries have recorded a substantial drop in vaccination coverage in children, especially of those under two years of age. In Brazil, administrative data indicate the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on this downward trend, which was already an important challenge of the National Immunization Program in recent years. Many children will be susceptible to immunopreventable diseases, which reinforces the need to assess the vaccine status of schoolchildren before returning to face-to-face classes.Entities:
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Year: 2020 PMID: 33175029 PMCID: PMC7647469 DOI: 10.11606/s1518-8787.2020054003142
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Rev Saude Publica ISSN: 0034-8910 Impact factor: 2.106
FigureNumber of doses applied of the pentavalent vaccine* (first dose) in Brazil, month and year (2015–2020).
FiguraNúmero de doses aplicadas da vacina pentavalente* (primeira dose) no Brasil, segundo mês e ano (2015–2020).