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COVID-19 and Routine Childhood and Adolescent Immunizations: Evidence from Louisiana Medicaid
Vaccine. 2021 Dec 24:S0264-410X(21)01630-3. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.12.022. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe COVID-19 pandemic disrupted routine vaccinations for children and adolescents. However, it remains unclear whether the impact has been different for children and adolescents from low-income families. To address this, we compared monthly routine vaccination use per 1000 vaccine-eligible children and adolescents enrolled in Louisiana Medicaid in the years before (2017-2019) and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020). Compared to the 2017-2019 average vaccination rates, we found a 28% reduction in measles, mumps, and...
Source: Vaccine - January 16, 2022 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Brigham Walker Andrew Anderson Charles Stoecker Yixue Shao Thomas A LaVeist Kevin Callison Source Type: research

Vaccine exposure during pregnancy among privately and publicly insured women in the United States, 2016-2018
CONCLUSION: Maternal vaccination with ACIP-recommended vaccines was suboptimal among privately and Medicaid-insured patients, with lower vaccination coverage among Medicaid-insured pregnancies than their privately insured counterparts. Inadvertent exposure to contraindicated vaccines during pregnancy was rare. This study evaluated only vaccinations reimbursed among insured populations and may have limited generalizability to uninsured populations.PMID:34507857 | DOI:10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.08.091
Source: Vaccine - September 11, 2021 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Keran Moll Hui-Lee Wong Kathryn Fingar Cindy Ke Zhou Michael Lu Mao Hu Shayan Hobbi Timothy Burrell Bethany Baer Julia Simard Joyce Obidi Yoganand Chillarige Thomas MaCurdy Steve Anderson Azadeh Shoaibi Source Type: research