• Vaccine · Feb 2021

    Short term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on incidence of vaccine preventable diseases and participation in routine infant vaccinations in the Netherlands in the period March-September 2020.

    • Marit Middeldorp, Alies van Lier, Nicoline van der Maas, Irene Veldhuijzen, Wieke Freudenburg, Nina M van Sorge, Sanders Elisabeth A M EAM Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands., Mirjam J Knol, and Hester E de Melker.
    • Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands. Electronic address: marit.middeldorp@rivm.nl.
    • Vaccine. 2021 Feb 12; 39 (7): 1039-1043.

    AbstractWe aimed to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs) and participation in the routine infant vaccination programme in the Netherlands. The incidence of various VPDs initially decreased by 75-97% after the implementation of the Dutch COVID-19 response measures. The participation in the first measles-mumps-rubella vaccination among children scheduled for vaccination in March-September 2020 initially dropped by 6-14% compared with the previous year. After catch-up vaccination, a difference in MMR1 participation of -1% to -2% still remained. Thus, the pandemic has reduced the incidence of several VPDs and has had a limited impact on the routine infant vaccination programme.Copyright © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.

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