The Impact of COVID-19 Fatigue on Childhood Vaccine Uptake | ID Week 2024

“Many of us at this point have felt some semblance of COVID fatigue,” IJ Anosike, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of pediatrics at the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx said in an interview with Managed Healthcare Executive. “The feeling I’m interested in delving into is this feeling of COVID complacency.”

“This concept of vaccine hesitancy is not new, but I think COVID really was the oil to the gas that really promulgated this issue, which I consider to be sort of the silent pandemic,” Anosike continued.

Anosike spoke at two sessions today at ID Week 2024, held in Los Angeles. Those sessions were ‘Viral Infections in Children’ and ‘COVID-19 in Children: Navigating the Current Landscape Amid Vaccine Hesitancy.’