Reacción a "Reaction: WHO and UNICEF data show global drop in childhood vaccination rates"

The indirect consequences of the pandemic in low-income countries are starting to become visible. Interruptions to the expanded programme on immunisation, due to restrictions imposed by covid, have caused a drop in vaccination coverage among the most vulnerable population, children. Difficulties in accessing routine vaccines, which save thousands and thousands of lives each year, have disastrous consequences in early childhood, and in addition to being associated with epidemic outbreaks (such as measles), leave children unprotected and vulnerable to entirely preventable diseases. Governments should understand that the direct consequences of covid in children are far less severe than the indirect consequences of not giving them access to vaccines.