{"id":9989,"date":"2021-05-24T11:50:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T18:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9989"},"modified":"2021-05-25T11:51:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T18:51:30","slug":"childhood-immunization-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/24\/childhood-immunization-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Childhood Immunization during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Childhood immunization rates in Texas declined by 47% between 2019 and 2020 among 5-month-olds, along with a 58% decline among 16-month-olds. Small decreases (5%) occurred among 24-month-olds, and there was no decline in vaccines received at birth (i.e., Hepatitis B). Decreases tended to be larger in rural than urban counties. The authors note that these lower rates occurred in conjunction with increases in state vaccine exemptions over the last five years.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nuzhath et al.\u00a0(Apr 2021). Childhood Immunization during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Texas. Vaccine. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.vaccine.2021.04.050\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.vaccine.2021.04.050<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Childhood immunization rates in Texas declined by 47% between 2019 and 2020 among 5-month-olds, along with a 58% decline among 16-month-olds. Small decreases (5%) occurred among 24-month-olds, and there was no decline in vaccines received at birth (i.e., Hepatitis B). Decreases tended to be larger in rural than urban counties. The authors note that these&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/24\/childhood-immunization-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-texas\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-9989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-public-health","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9990,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989\/revisions\/9990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9989"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}