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The vaccination policy of young people affected by Covid in the country has noticed a relief to unaffected young people, according to a new study.
The review titled “The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Routine Child Immunization Coverage and Timeliness in India: A Retrospective Analysis of Data from the National Family Health Survey 2019-2021,” which was published online on 21 October, showed that the first estimates of family knowledge about the effect of Covid and related lockdowns on vaccination regimen across the country.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted fitness systems around the world. We estimate the effect of the pandemic on the policy and timeliness of the immunization regime of the formative years in India until April 2021,” he says.
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The effects of the study showed that vaccination policy decreases in children affected by Covid than in unaffected children, from 2% less for bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) and hepatitis B to 9% for diphtheriatric, tetanus and pertussis toxoid (DPT-3). ) and 10% for polio. There is no significant difference in the policy of MCV1 (first dose of measles vaccine), the study added.
“The relief in policy is greater for vaccine doses given to older age groups. The timely rate of receiving doses of polio and DTP vaccines decreases by 3% to 5% among young people affected by Covid compared to unaffected youth. Among population subgroups, young men affected by covid and those in rural areas experienced the greatest relief in vaccination policy,” the effects showed.
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The researchers explained that for the study, information from the National Family Health Survey of India 2019-2021 (NFHS-5), a cross-sectional survey that collected data on vaccination of children under five years of age from a nationally representative pattern of families between June and 2019 and April 2021, used.
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