What are the key pediatric public policy priorities as the COVID-19 pandemic persists?

Mark R. Schleiss; Sallie R. Permar; Chandy John

doi:10.1038/s41390-023-02529-x

What are the key pediatric public policy priorities as the COVID-19 pandemic persists?

Mark R. Schleiss, Sallie R. Permar, Chandy John

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Abstract

Impact: 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.

Original language	English (US)
Journal	Pediatric Research
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41390-023-02529-x
State	Accepted/In press - 2023

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© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to the International Pediatric Research Foundation, Inc.

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