Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School, 2001 6th Street SE, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA.
Department of Pediatrics, New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, 525 E 68th St, New York, NY, 10065, USA.
Pediatr Res. 2023 May;93(6):1451-1455. doi: 10.1038/s41390-023-02529-x. Epub 2023 Feb 25.
The COVID-19 pandemic is not over, and its impact is just beginning to be felt on children. COVID-19 vaccines protect both the pregnant patient and newborns, and breastfeeding provides a key component of passive protective immunity. "Long COVID" has contributed to the current crisis in pediatric mental health, and vaccines confer protection against this long-term complication of COVID-19 disease. Vaccine misinformation is not only impacting compliance with maternal and pediatric COVID-19 immunization efforts, but also other routine childhood vaccinations. As a public health priority, we must improve our response to vaccine misinformation and find novel strategies to improve vaccine compliance.
新冠疫情尚未结束,其对儿童的影响才刚刚开始显现。新冠疫苗既能保护孕妇患者,也能保护新生儿,而母乳喂养则为被动保护免疫提供了关键组成部分。“长新冠”导致了当前儿科心理健康危机,而疫苗则能预防新冠疾病的这一长期并发症。疫苗错误信息不仅影响了母婴新冠疫苗接种工作的执行,也影响了其他常规儿童疫苗的接种。因此,我们必须将其作为公共卫生重点事项,改善对疫苗错误信息的应对措施,并找到提高疫苗接种率的新策略。