Fetal deaths and infant homicides were stable during the early COVID-19 pandemic as live births increased nationwide, a pair of government reports has found.
that 1,067 babies were murdered 2017 through 2020, averaging 267 a year as their number and rate declined annually.21,105 fetal deaths at 20 weeks of gestation or more in 2021 — a 1% increase from the 20,854 it tallied in 2020 but a slight drop in the overall rate, owing to an increase in the number of live births.
The number of infant homicides fell steadily from 2017 to 2020 before rising again in preliminary figures for 2021 that researchers are finalizing, said Isabelle Horon, a CDC statistician and co-author of the report. Ms. Horon noted in an email that the CDC has, to date, counted 267 infant homicides in 2021 — a number that will likely climb higher when the final tally is released.
Although the other report found that fetal deaths at about five months of pregnancy or later rose by 1% from 2020 to 2021, the CDC said the rate did not change significantly.
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