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ANN ARBOR, Mich. A different type of surge may be on the way more than a year into the pandemic - a baby surge.
The COVID-19 shutdown initially seemed to hit pause on pregnancy and birth rates, new research from one major hospital system suggests, but that trend is quickly reversing. Birth rates declined early on in the pandemic, but we expect a dramatic rebound soon, says lead author Molly Stout, M.D., MSci, maternal fetal medicine director at Michigan Medicine Von Voigtlander Women s Hospital. We re already seeing signs of a summer baby surge.
While infectious disease experts have been modelling COVID cases to project surge trends, Stout and her team have been doing the same for pregnancy trends.