The overall number of babies born in the United States continues to follow a downward trend but 'may be returning to pre-pandemic levels' now, a new federal report suggests.
The overall number of babies born in the United States continues to follow a downward trend but"may be returning to pre-pandemic levels" now, a new federal report suggests.
US births dropped 2% in the first half of 2021 compared with the year prior, according to the new National Center for Health Statistics report, released Tuesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The same decline in births was observed for the first half of 2020, and births fell 5% in the second half of 2020.
"This difference between patterns seen for the first 6 months of 2021 and earlier years suggests that the magnitude of the downward trend seen in the second half of 2020 and January of 2021 may have begun to wane and declines in the number of births may be returning to pre-pandemic levels," the researchers wrote.
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