COVID-19 Will Likely Lead to Fewer Births | Geography Education | Scoop.it
From www.theatlantic.com - November 30, 2020 6:26 PM

"By now, the pandemic has disrupted Americans’ daily lives for nearly as long as a baby typically spends in the womb. This means that many children conceived in mid-March are weeks away from joining us in this disorienting new world, but just as notable are the children who won’t be joining us—the babies who would have been born were it not for the ongoing economic and public-health crises. These missing births, which could end up numbering in the hundreds of thousands in the U.S., will make up what’s been called the ‘COVID baby bust.' The U.S. could have hundreds of thousands of fewer births next year than it would have in the absence of a pandemic."