Potential Consequences of Sars-Cov-2 Pandemic on Birth Rates and Subsequent Demographics Volume 4 - Issue 2

Léo Pomar¹*, Agathe Contier¹, Jeffrey E Harris², Guillaume Favre¹, Karin Nielsen-Saines³ and David Baud³

• ¹Department Woman-Mother-Child, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
• ²Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA 02139 USA
• ³Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, USA

Received: November 20, 2020; Published: December 09, 2020

Corresponding author: Léo Pomar, Materno-fetal & Obstetrics Research Unit, Department Woman-mother-child, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Switzerland

DOI: 10.32474/IGWHC.2020.04.000186

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Abstract

The SARS-CoV 2 pandemic is now responsible for over 48 million infections and one million deaths worldwide. Pandemics impact population growth not only by excessive mortality, but also by preventing births. In previous pandemics occurring in the 20th and 21st centuries, a trend towards birth rate reduction was observed 9 months later (Figure 1). After the 1918-20 HIN1 influenza pandemic, birth rates dropped by 5 to 15% in comparison to average rates before the pandemic

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