Letter to the editor: Increase of influenza vaccination coverage rates during the COVID-19 pandemic and implications for the upcoming influenza season in northern hemisphere countries and Australia

Marco Del Riccio; Bruno Lina; Saverio Caini; Lisa Staadegaard; Sytske Wiegersma; Jan Kynčl; Béhazine Combadière; Chandini Raina MacIntyre; John Paget

doi:10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.50.2101143

Letter Open Access

Like 1

Download

Letter to the editor: Increase of influenza vaccination coverage rates during the COVID-19 pandemic and implications for the upcoming influenza season in northern hemisphere countries and Australia
Marco Del Riccio^1,2 , Bruno Lina³ , Saverio Caini¹ , Lisa Staadegaard¹ , Sytske Wiegersma¹ , Jan Kynčl⁴ , Béhazine Combadière⁵ , Chandini Raina MacIntyre⁶ , John Paget¹
View Affiliations Hide Affiliations

Affiliations: ¹ Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (Nivel), Utrecht, Netherlands ² Postgraduate School in Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy ³ VirPath Laboratory, University of Lyon, Lyon, France ⁴ Department of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, National Institute of Public Health, Prague, Czech Republic ⁵ Inserm, Centre d'Immunologie et des Maladies Infectieuses, Sorbonne Université, France ⁶ Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Correspondence:
Marco Del Riccio
M.delRiccio Nivel.nl
View Citation Hide Citation

Citation style for this article: Del Riccio Marco, Lina Bruno, Caini Saverio, Staadegaard Lisa, Wiegersma Sytske, Kynčl Jan, Combadière Béhazine, MacIntyre Chandini Raina, Paget John. Letter to the editor: Increase of influenza vaccination coverage rates during the COVID-19 pandemic and implications for the upcoming influenza season in northern hemisphere countries and Australia. Euro Surveill. 2021;26(50):pii=2101143. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.50.2101143 Received: 10 Dec 2021; Accepted: 14 Dec 2021

Preview this article:

There is no abstract available.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Article metrics loading...

/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.50.2101143

2021-12-16

2025-02-22

Click here for cited by

/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.50.2101143

Full text loading...

/deliver/fulltext/eurosurveillance/26/50/eurosurv-26-50-9.html?itemId=/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.50.2101143&mimeType=html&fmt=ahah

References

Eurosurveillance. Spotlight influenza 2021. [Accessed: 9 Dec 2021]. Available from: https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/spotlight-influenza-2021
Larrauri A, Prosenc Trilar K. Preparing for an influenza season 2021/22 with a likely co-circulation of influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2. Euro Surveill. 2021;26(41):2100975. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.41.2100975 PMID: 34651574
World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe (WHO/Europe). Influenza vaccination coverage and effectiveness. Copenhagen: WHO/Europe. [Accessed: Oct 2021]. Available from: https://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/communicable-diseases/influenza/vaccination/influenza-vaccination-coverage-and-effectiveness
Council of the European Union. Council Recommendation of 22 December 2009 on seasonal influenza vaccination (2009/1019/EU). Official Journal of the European Union. 2009. L 348/71. [Accessed: Dec 2021]. Available from: http://eur-lex.europa. eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:348:0071:0072:E N:PDF
Kwon Y, Choe YJ, Yun JW, Kim HK, Kim S, Chun C, et al. Impact of Media Coverage on Influenza Vaccine Coverage in Elderly Individuals from 2020 to 2021 in the Republic of Korea. Vaccines (Basel). 2021;9(4):367. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9040367 PMID: 33920117
Australian Government. Department of Health. Influenza (flu) immunization data. Canberra: Australian Government. Department of Health. [Accessed: Oct 2021]. Available from: https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/influenza-flu-immunisation-data
Burki TK. Circulation of influenza, RSV, and SARS-CoV-2: an uncertain season ahead. Lancet Respir Med. 2021;9(10):e103. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(21)00364-7 PMID: 34370976
Baker RE, Park SW, Yang W, Vecchi GA, Metcalf CJE, Grenfell BT. The impact of COVID-19 nonpharmaceutical interventions on the future dynamics of endemic infections. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2020;117(48):30547-53. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2013182117 PMID: 33168723
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Seasonal influenza vaccination in EU/EEA Member States. Stockholm: ECDC. [Accessed: Nov 2021]. Available from: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/seasonal-influenza-antiviral-use-2018.pdf

Letter to the editor: Increase of influenza vaccination coverage rates during the COVID-19 pandemic and implications for the upcoming influenza season in northern hemisphere countries and Australia

Citation style for this article: <a href="/search?value1=Marco+Del+Riccio&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Del Riccio Marco</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Bruno+Lina&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Lina Bruno</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Saverio+Caini&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Caini Saverio</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Lisa+Staadegaard&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Staadegaard Lisa</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Sytske+Wiegersma&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Wiegersma Sytske</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Jan+Kyn%C4%8Dl&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Kynčl Jan</a>, <a href="/search?value1=B%C3%A9hazine+Combadi%C3%A8re&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Combadière Béhazine</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Chandini+Raina+MacIntyre&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">MacIntyre Chandini Raina</a>, <a href="/search?value1=John+Paget&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Paget John</a>. Letter to the editor: Increase of influenza vaccination coverage rates during the COVID-19 pandemic and implications for the upcoming influenza season in northern hemisphere countries and Australia. <a href="/content/ecdc">Euro Surveill.</a> 2021;26(50):pii=2101143. <a href="https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.50.2101143" title="doi link" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.50.2101143</a> Received: 10 Dec 2021;   Accepted: 14 Dec 2021

/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.50.2101143

Data & Media loading...

Submit comment

Comment moderation successfully completed

Letter to the editor: Increase of influenza vaccination coverage rates during the COVID-19 pandemic and implications for the upcoming influenza season in northern hemisphere countries and Australia

Click here for cited by