US births dropped 8% 9 months into pandemic, CDC data shows
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While an earlier Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report reflected a 4% drop in U.S. births last year, newly released data shows the month of December – which was about nine months after coronavirus was declared a global pandemic – saw an 8% decline from the year prior.
The report also indicated that the decline in the number of births between 2019 and 2020 was larger in the second half of the year than in the first half of the year. When broken down by state, 20 reported declines in the first half of 2020, while 30 reported no significant change, but all 50 reported declines in the second half. New Mexico saw the steepest decline in the second half of 2020 with 11%, followed by New York at 9%, and then California, Hawaii and West Virginia which all reported 8%. Nationwide the declines were seen across all races and Hispanic-origin groups.
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