Births Plummeted After Lockdowns

“Nine months after the declaration of a national emergency due to the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic, U.S. births fell by 8% in a month,” Bloomberg reports.

“For the full year, the number of babies born in the country fell 4% to about 3.6 million, the largest decline since 1973… The latest data are early evidence of the drastic impact from the health crisis on birth rates, with the full effect expected to show in 2021 data.”