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- Title
Pediatric COVID-19 Health Disparities and Vaccine Equity.
- Authors
Oliveira, Carlos R; Feemster, Kristen A; Ulloa, Erlinda R
- Abstract
While most children with coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) experience mild illness, some are vulnerable to severe disease and develop long-term complications. Children with disabilities, those from lower-income homes, and those from racial and ethnic minority groups are more likely to be hospitalized and to have poor outcomes following an infection. For many of these same children, a wide range of social, economic, and environmental disadvantages have made it more difficult for them to access COVID-19 vaccines. Ensuring vaccine equity in children and decreasing health disparities promotes the common good and serves society as a whole. In this article, we discuss how the pandemic has exposed long-standing injustices in historically marginalized groups and provide a summary of the research describing the disparities associated with COVID-19 infection, severity, and vaccine uptake. Last, we outline several strategies for addressing some of the issues that can give rise to vaccine inequity in the pediatric population.
- Subjects
COVID-19; HEALTH services accessibility; MINORITIES; COVID-19 vaccines; CHILDREN with disabilities; RACE; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; HEALTH equity; CHILDREN
- Publication
Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, 2022, Vol 11, pS141
- ISSN
2048-7193
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jpids/piac091