CCDR: Volume 49-4, April 2023: Children's Health and COVID-19

Table of contents

Advisory Committee Statement
Summary of the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) Statement—Recommendations on Fractional Influenza Vaccine Dosing in the Event of a Shortage: Pandemic preparedness
A Sinilaite, P Doyon-Plourde, K Young, R Harrison on behalf of the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI)

Summary of the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) Statement—Recommendation on Repeated Seasonal Influenza Vaccination
A Sinilaite, K Young, J Papenburg on behalf of the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI)

Overview
Resource use and disease severity of children hospitalized for COVID-19 versus multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) in Canada
D Farrar, C Moore Hepburn, O Drouin, T El Tal, M-P Morin, R Berard, M King, M Laffin Thibodeau, K Baerg, G Beaudoin-Bussières, C Beaufils, T-L Bennett, S Benseler, K Chan, C Cyr, N Dahdah, E Donner, J Embree, C Farrell, A Finzi, S Forgie, R Giroux, K Kang, B Lang, R Laxer, B McCrindle, J Orkin, J Papenburg, C Pound, V Price, J-P Proulx-Gauthier, R Purewal, M Sadarangani, M Salvadori, R Thibeault, K Top, I Viel-Thériault, E Haddad, R Scuccimarri, R Yeung, F Kakkar, S Morris on behalf of the Canadian Paediatric Surveillance Program COVID-19 Study Team

Epidemiological Study
Description of COVID-19 outbreaks in childcare facilities in Alberta, March 2020 to December 31, 2021
J Geary, S Rudko, A Scott

Rapid Communication
SARS-CoV-2 vaccine acceptance among caregivers of children younger than five years of age: A cross-sectional survey in Toronto
P-P Piché-Renaud, E Karimi-Shahrbabak, S Abu Fadaleh, D Farrar, J Orkin, M Science, S Morris

Surveillance
COVID-19 outbreak trends in Canada, 2021
D Dam, E McGill, A Bellos, C Coulby, J Edwin, R McCormick, K Patterson

National epidemiological analysis of the association of COVID-19 vaccination and incidence of COVID-19 cases in Canada, January to August 2021
Public Health Agency of Canada, COVID-19 Surveillance, Vaccine Coverage and Information System, Vaccine Effectiveness Surveillance Program, and Public Health Risk Science/National Microbiology Laboratory Teams

Extensive SARS-CoV-2 testing reveals BA.1/BA.2 asymptomatic rates and underreporting in school children
MM Martignoni, Z Mohammadi, JC Loredo-Osti, A Hurford