Pandemic may have created 'baby bust' instead of boom

The pandemic not only cost hundreds of thousands of American lives, but it also appears to have triggered a deep drop in births, U.S. health officials reported Wednesday.

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Until 2020, the birth rate had been declining about 2% a year, but that rate dropped to 4% with the start of the pandemic, researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found.
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"When you take that one step further and look at the decline across 2020, there were greater declines in the second half of the year -- 6% versus the first part of the year [at] 2%," said report author Brady Hamilton, a statistician demographer at the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, or NCHS.

"You have this decline that is larger than what we've seen in prior years and really shows some indication of the impact of the pandemic on the number of births," Hamilton said.

.https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2021/06/24/coronavirus-baby-boom-might-be-bust/6881624495310/

Pandemic may have created 'baby bust' instead of boom

Pandemic may have created 'baby bust' instead of boom

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