The vaccination of children is being mistreated by the crisis.
During the health crisis, the vaccination schedule for children was greatly disrupted. “During the crisis, the emphasis was on trying to maintain ONE consultations and pediatric vaccination (up to 15 months), and as priority was given to primary vaccination, there has some delay in booster dosessays Doctor Julie Frère, pediatric infectious disease specialist at the Liège University Hospital. Among some families, there was also a certain fear of traveling during the pandemic, which caused a delay in the vaccination of children. By closing consultations, we also had to postpone appointments from which a proportion of children came to receive their vaccine.
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