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COVID-19 pandemic baby bust. The global economic recession caused by the outbreak of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic first identified in December 2019 resulted in a significant decrease in birth rate, or "baby bust", in many countries. All-time low birth rates were seen in Italy, Japan, South Korea, England, and Wales. [1]
From ages 5 to 15, there appears to be a significant increase in births, which is likely due to the post-recession baby boom observed in the late 2000s and early 2010s. The number of births in Ireland rose by more than 3,000 in 2021 after being in decline for more than a decade, implying the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a baby boom in Ireland.
The CDC publishes official numbers of COVID-19 cases in the United States. The CDC estimates that, between February 2020 and September 2021, only 1 in 1.3 COVID-19 deaths were attributed to COVID-19. [2] The true COVID-19 death toll in the United States would therefore be higher than official reports, as modeled by a paper published in The ...
The timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic lists the articles containing the chronology and epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2, [1] the virus that causes the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The first human cases of COVID-19 occurred in Wuhan, People's Republic of China, on or about 17 November 2019. [2]
The COVID-19 pandemic ranks as the deadliest disaster in the country's history. [43] It was the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2020, behind heart disease and cancer. [44] From 2019 to 2020, U.S. life expectancy dropped by three years for Hispanic and Latino Americans, 2.9 years for African Americans, and 1.2 years for white ...
January 22. On January 22, the U.S. passed 25 million cases, with one of every 13 Americans testing positive for COVID-19. [24] January 24. On January 24, the Capitol Police announced that 38 police officers have tested positive for COVID-19 since the January 6 riot at the United States Capitol. [25] January 25.
The COVID-19 vaccines are widely credited for their role in reducing the severity and death caused by COVID-19. [ 127 ] [ 128 ] As of March 2023, more than 5.5 billion people had received one or more doses [ 129 ] (11.8 billion in total) in over 197 countries.
The Great Resignation, also known as the Big Quit[2][3] and the Great Reshuffle, [4][5] was a mainly American economic trend in which employees voluntarily resigned from their jobs en masse, beginning in early 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. [6] Among the most cited reasons for resigning included wage stagnation amid rising cost of living ...