The impact of COVID-19 childhood and adolescent vaccination on mortality in Argentina.

Autor: Quiroga R; Instituto de Investigaciones en Físico-Química de Córdoba (INFIQC-CONICET), Córdoba, Argentina; Departamento de Química Teórica y Computacional, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. Electronic address: rquiroga@unc.edu.ar., Gastellu S; Centro de Historia Social de la Justicia y el Gobierno, Laboratorio de Historias Conectadas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CEHISO-LAHISCO-UNR-CONICET), Rosario, Argentina., Fernández B; Independent Researcher., Ottaviani R; Independent Researcher., Zuccoli JR; Centro de Investigaciones sobre Porfirinas y Porfirias (CIPYP-CONICET), Hospital de Clínicas José de San Martín, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina., Vallecorsa PD; Departamento Coordinación BNCT, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica (CNEA), Buenos Aires, Argentina., Aliaga J; Universidad Nacional de Hurlingham, Hurlingham, Argentina., Barberia L; Departamento de Ciência Política, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. Electronic address: lorenabarberia@usp.br.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Vaccine [Vaccine] 2024 Sep 17; Vol. 42 (22), pp. 126037. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jun 13.
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.06.005
Abstrakt: Introduction: Argentina authorized COVID-19 vaccination for adolescents 12 years and older in August 2021, and then for children three years and older in October 2021. Children aged 6 months-2 years received a two-dose regimen beginning July 2022.
Objective: This study aims to analyze the impact of COVID-19 vaccination among children aged 0-17, considering vaccination status and mortality for the 2020-2022 period.
Methods: We conducted a population-level analysis examining all-cause mortality, COVID-19 cases, deaths, and vaccination records. We compared outcomes with child mortality for diseases for which vaccination is compulsory, before and after each vaccine rollout.
Results: A decrease in COVID-19-related deaths was observed in 2022 for pediatric age groups (3-11 and 12-17) with relatively higher vaccination coverage. However, no decrease was observed for the 0-2 year old age group, which had the longest delay in access to immunization and lowest vaccination coverage. When compared to unvaccinated populations in 2022, we observe an 8-15-fold reduction in cumulative death rates for pediatric populations vaccinated with 1 or more doses, and a 16-18-fold reduction for those vaccinated with 2 or more doses. Historical analysis shows that for diseases for which vaccination is now compulsory in many countries, pre-vaccine-rollout mortality was lower than COVID-19 deaths during 2020-2022.
Conclusions and Relevance: SARS-CoV-2 immunization was associated with reduced COVID-19 deaths for children and adolescents in Argentina. Our findings suggest that greater efforts should be undertaken to ensure wider COVID-19 vaccine coverage in children and adolescents, especially infants.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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