US Natality Decline Again
I found an update of the CDC YoY natality data now through June and it's not so good...
In my last post there was some hope that the US YoY 2021-2022 natality decline trend might be turning back up and improving. After adding June, not so much:
This seems to be in line with what keeps popping up for Europe.
And interestingly, as the data accumulates — and remember this is CDC data so it could be total sh*t due to manipulations behind the scenes — any differences between high vax states and low vax states seem to be evaporating. And I added population adjustments to the Top 10 and Top 25 vaxed states bars just to be sure (the new orange and blue rightmost bars for each month).
Here’s the updated heatmap:
UPDATE: The bad cat has an update for Sweden that is reasonably consistent with this one except maybe a bit on the optimistic side compared to me: