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Meningococcal vaccines Australia: Up to half of Australian parents may have skipped their child’s vaccine last year due to pandemic – Essential Kids
‘What is perhaps more concerning is that one in four parents are still unlikely to catch up on any missed or delayed appointments’.
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Close to half of Australian parents of children under four either cancelled or delayed scheduled meningococcal disease vaccine appointments last year due to the pandemic, a new survey has found.
Led by Ipsos, for healthcare company GSK, 484 Australian parents were surveyed as part of a worldwide study into the impacts of COVID-19 on childhood vaccination schedules.
Just over half these parents (52 per cent) admitted to cancelling or delaying vaccination appointments due to…
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