Some parents appear to be avoiding routine vaccinations over fears that going to a health care facility could increase the risk of contracting COVID-19
. In other cases, some doctors are choosing to postpone or cancel routine vaccinations because of clinic closures or because they don’t have enough personal protective equipment to see patients safely, according to infectious disease experts.
In British Columbia, where officials have current data, routine vaccinations in children under age two are down from 2 to 5 per cent in some regions, said Monika Naus, the medical director of the communicable diseases and immunization service at the BC Centre for Disease Control. Shaun Morris, a clinician scientist in infectious diseases at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children, said vaccination-related visits are definitely down.
Concerns about a drop in rates prompted the Canadian Paediatric Society to issue a plea last month urging parents and health care providers to follow the vaccination schedule for children. The CPS said health care providers can take steps to protect against COVID-19 transmission, such as screening patients over the phone for symptoms, eliminating the use of waiting rooms and reserving certain times of the day for vaccination appointments.In Ottawa, public-health officials created a special vaccination clinic after noticing a substantial decline in vaccination orders placed by primary care providers at the end of March and the beginning of April.
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