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The Impact of COVID-19 on Universal Newborn Hearing Screening
Roberto Gallus1, Andrea Melis2, Laura Maria De Luca2
1Otolaryngology, Mater Olbia Hospital, Olbia, Italy.
Objectives:
To report the direct and indirect impact of coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on the Universal Newborn Hearing Screening program of our institution (Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria di Sassari).
Design:
Monocentric retrospective study whose target population included all the newborns born in or referred to our hospital in 2019 and 2020.
Results:
There is no statistically significant difference in time to retest or loss to follow-up rate between the 2 years considered (2019 to 2020). Referral rate is not higher for newborns born to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 polymerase chain reaction positive mothers.
Conclusions:
In relation to the analyzed variables, coronavirus disease 2019 seems to have a limited impact on our screening program. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 did not behave as an audiological risk factor in our series.
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