IMPACTO DA PANDEMIA DA COVID-19 NA COBERTURA VACINAL INFANTIL EM JOÃO MONLEVADE - MG: um estudo descritivo de tendência temporal

Abstract

Vaccination coverage is essential for both individual and collective protection, especially when comparing cost and effectiveness. Today, we know its great importance as a health indicator for the quality of primary care and disease prevention, making it essential to study it. This is a descriptive study with a temporal trend that describes the rate of childhood vaccination immunization in João Monlevade - MG, from zero to 12 months of life, comparing the previous years of the pandemic period (2017 to 2019), in relation to the years of 2020, 2021 and 2022 of BCG immunovaccination coverage using secondary database through DATASUS, using as a parameter the rate recommended by the PNI. As a result, it can be seen that there was a sudden reduction in childhood vaccination coverage during the pandemic, in which the lowest BCG average was 69.95% in 2021, but in the years going back to that date, there was little fluctuation in the vaccination rate, proving the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the immunization of children in the city.