US Natality Decline Continues Through July

CDC is still hiding this data from prominence even though their cumulative massaging of past months do help a bit (how honestly we don't know of course)

Here’s the heatmap:

And here’s the bar chart trend summary:

I skipped the population adjusted bars this month as it was a lot of work for basically nothing for the last update.

We continue to see little difference between heavily injected states and those not after some initial differentiation.

If you squint really hard you can detect a decline (bar chart up trend MoM) in YoY natality but I wouldn’t write home to Mom just yet unfortunately…

And no update to be found on the CDC site for data through August yet even though it should reasonably be there by now…

Data here until they take it down anyway.