Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society • December 2023
Thakkar PV, Scott Z, Hoffman M, Delarosa J, Hickerson J, Boutzoukas AE, Benjamin DK Jr., Brookhart MA, Zimmerman KO, Moorthy GS
This study used an administrative claims database from North Carolina Medicaid to evaluate the rates of well-child visits and immunization administration for children ≤14 months of age, and used a quasi-Poisson regression model to estimate the rate ratio of each outcome during the pandemic period (3/15/2020 through 3/15/2021) compared with the pre-pandemic period (3/15/2019 through 3/14/2020). The rates of well-child visits and immunization administrations among North Carolina children enrolled in public insurance substantially decreased during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.